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One strong interview answer to cron as a service: 100 million jobs in 1,024 leased partitions, a fenced conditional claim and an outbox, a timing wheel for the next minute, look-ahead, jitter and fair queues for the top-of-the-hour spike, and an honest at-least-once guarantee made harmless by leases, attempt-number fencing, run keys and misfire policies.
Run this report every night at 2 a.