So today I discovered that there’s a cron job that holds non-reproducible state that died, and now our system is fucked.

The cron job doesn’t live inside any source control. This morning it entered a terminal state, and because it overwrites its state there’s no way to revert it.

I’m currently waiting for the database rollback and have rewritten it in a reproducible/idempotent way.

    • @kiagam@lemmy.world
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      210 days ago

      I don’t know why but this is the first time I read this phrase and it actually makes sense.

      I knew exactly what it meant before, but it didn’t make sense until now