Glossary
Every term the courses use, defined in one line and then in a paragraph. Written to be read out of order.
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A scheduled job starting before the last one finished.
An hourly job that takes seventy minutes will have two copies running. Whether that is harmless or catastrophic depends entirely on what the job does.
See also Cron, Scheduled job
Work that runs because of the time, not a user.
A job triggered on a schedule. Fails in four classic ways: timezones, overlapping runs, missed runs, and growing workloads. Alert on the absence of success, not on failure.
See also Cron, Background job, UTC