Exploring the software engineering lessons we can learn from the solutions I've seen.
Great challenge, John. Thank you. It's funny: Cron was born as a crutch for remembering to run routine commands, but it eventually became a symbol of automation. Even if all DevOps moves to serverless tomorrow, where "triggers decide everything," cron-like entries will continue to appear in our pipelines for decades - https://open.substack.com/pub/romanbrick/p/cron-from-a-hack-to-the-archetype?r=2bg5a4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Great challenge, John. Thank you. It's funny: Cron was born as a crutch for remembering to run routine commands, but it eventually became a symbol of automation. Even if all DevOps moves to serverless tomorrow, where "triggers decide everything," cron-like entries will continue to appear in our pipelines for decades - https://open.substack.com/pub/romanbrick/p/cron-from-a-hack-to-the-archetype?r=2bg5a4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true