Interesting they went straight from "1 box running shell scripts with flock" to "mega custom thing" w/out going thru something like kube crob jobs or an off-the-shelf scheduler in between.
I find jumps like this hint at "political stiction", sometimes it's hard to get permission to do incremental updates to things, you have to wait until the smoke from the burning tires is unmissable, then get big political consensus and a "visible project" to allocate budget and time for what would otherwise be unsexy maintenance work.
I find jumps like this hint at "political stiction", sometimes it's hard to get permission to do incremental updates to things, you have to wait until the smoke from the burning tires is unmissable, then get big political consensus and a "visible project" to allocate budget and time for what would otherwise be unsexy maintenance work.