Diego builds the job infrastructure at Sundial. He has strong opinions about at-least-once delivery, mostly formed at 3 a.m.
SESSIONS · 1
9:00–9:30
THU · DEC 3
MAIN STAGE
From Cron to Queues: Evolving Background Jobs
Infrastructure·Talk (30 min)
Every system starts with a cron job and ends with a distributed job queue nobody fully understands. This talk maps the evolution honestly: when cron is enough, when to reach for a queue, how to handle retries and idempotency without a PhD, and the observability you need before — not after — jobs start silently failing.