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2 December 2025

  • curprev 17:5017:50, 2 December 2025 PC talk contribs 8,327 bytes +8,327 Created page with "500px 1. The Problem With Old-School Automation When I started automating in Python, cron jobs felt like superpowers.
Write a script, schedule it with crontab -e, and let it run while I slept — it was simple and elegant. But as projects grew, so did the cracks. Logs were scattered. Failures went unnoticed. Dependencies tangled. And debugging a failed job from a server at 2 a.m. became more “detective work” than e..."
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