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by hntorpldisb 970 days ago
> Cron is a terrible model for actually solving business problems with. Do you know what happens when a cron job fails to run/errors out?

Do lambdas not fail to run / error out? I’m not following.

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> Do lambdas not fail to run / error out? I’m not following.

You generally have some kind of monitoring/alerting built in. With cron the usual behaviour is to email root@localhost using local sendmail, which generally achieves nothing except for filling up /var.