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Task order: when a task is ready to run, and what can run in parallel

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A plan looks like a list, but at run time it is a graph that the scheduler walks one step at a time. At every step it asks a single question: which tasks may start right now. The answer decides the order, the parallelism, and what happens when something upstream fails. Most of the confusion about "…

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  1. 2026-10-05 13:05 · DEV Community — AI
    Task order: when a task is ready to run, and what can run in parallel

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