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There is no way you can do that reliably without a K8S multi-cloud cluster.

Not just a multi-cloud, but also managed kafka and a managed db across a multi-region deployment. Regions can fail, your job needs persistence and you need to maintain the state of the message in the db..

oh!! have you also thought about the right queue semantics? Do you want your job to trigger exactly one, at least one or at most once? What happens if the previous job is still running when it is time to trigger it again? Is it 15 minutes from start to start or end of previous to start of next? How about metrics? Is your process idempotent?

So, the right answer is 42 unicorns.

It'd be literally impossible to deploy any of this lightweight, cloud-native architecture without at least 14 Terraform modules as well, maybe more (just to be safe).

I cannot unthink of

It's the future (2015) https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future/

not so fast... young unicorns !! Where are you going to log the nasty errors when it fails.

You probably want to setup a self-hosted cloud-based remotely-managed splunk and ensure someone does the maintenance/upgrade for you (those can be challenging)

Have you properly setup your pager-duty ? I wouldn't want to miss one of the cron execution !!

At this point I don't even know if this comment is satire or not.

I don't see how it's satirical. If you need a job to run, you need to handle the case of transient node failures. K8S helps alleviate this issue by allowing the job to be launched on any of a choice of nodes. Sure, cron is fine if you're just looking to rotate logs on the local machine, but if you want to reset your nuclear watchdog timer, you may want something more reliable :)

If you need a job to run, you need to handle the case of governments turning against you. A huge nuclear capable military and a top notch spy agency helps alleviate this issue by allowing missiles to be launched on any belligerent nations.

I best add a nuclear capable military to the 2023 budget. I know we need to look after every penny, however, the increased reliability is surely worth it.

Just use AWS MAD.

I'm sensing a need for a blockchain here.

These replies made my day. Thanks guys.

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