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by floatingatoll 1964 days ago
Non-randomized wallclock integers.

For example: “sleep 60 seconds”, “cron 0 * * * * command”, “X-Retry-After: 300”

Found in: recurring jobs, backoff algorithms, oauth tokens.

Found in: ops-created tasks, dev-released software.

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