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Why is that not great? I’ve been a Spotify user for years. The Discover Weekly, “artist radio, and daily mix playlists allow me to find other bands I’d otherwise overlook. Finding/sharing playlists with others is a joy.

This isn’t true at all. I’ve been a Spotify user for years and listen to plenty of artists that wouldn’t get played on the radio.

That time absolutely existed. Was common. Source: lived through it.

Not only that, but just ssh'ing in and blindly rerunning the failed job isn't the answer anyway. Research why it failed. If the job has to write a file on a full disk, you can rerun that thing a hundred times and it will never work. I'm sure they must have missed something from their write up as I can't imagine that's their on call playbook.

Well, to be fair none of those things you list are due to a failure of cron itself either.

This. If I had too many jobs running on underpowered single point of failure hardware, I wouldn't immediately think cron is my problem and rewrite it. Rethink your architecture, write meaningful log messages, collect stats, figure out why so many of your services fail that often.