48-Hour Field Notes: My Batch Job Survived the Restart but Came Back With a Checkpoint I Couldn't Trust
A process that comes back up is not the same thing as a job that resumes, and it took me two nights of staring at logs to accept that difference. My batch job was supposed to summarize a pile of text records and land one file per record; the wrapper restarted it cleanly every time, printed a friend…
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48-Hour Field Notes: My Batch Job Survived the Restart but Came Back With a Checkpoint I Couldn't Trust