BackendDevOps/CloudTable-stakes
Cron Job / Scheduled Job
Also written as Cron, Scheduled Task
A task configured to run automatically on a fixed schedule (e.g. every night at 2am) rather than in response to a user action or request.
Think of it like
Like a bakery's oven timer that starts the next batch automatically every morning at the same time, with nobody needing to press start.
Junior or senior?
Junior sounds like
Hasn't dealt with a scheduled job overlapping with itself or failing silently.
Senior sounds like
Can describe exactly that happening, and how they caught and fixed it.
Ask them
“Tell me about a scheduled job that failed silently or overlapped with itself. How did you catch and fix it?”