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by 8organicbits 871 days ago
There's a lot to expore here. First, I'd suggest that cron and shell scripts may not be what you want. Cron has a complex format for scheduling and can lack features like sub-minute level scheduling, maintenance windows, and other task cadences. Shell scripts are OK for small things, but often I find I move to a different language if I keep something around long enough. Do the people writing jobs know shell?

For jobs run by data analysts, airflow and python work great. For devops jobs, begrudgingly, Jenkins or GitHub Actions. But there's so many varieties.