How Failing at Fantasy Baseball Made Me Fix My Cron Jobs with Temporal

<h2> TL;DR </h2> <p>My autonomous AI agent runs 34 cron jobs daily. In March, analysis and data-collection jobs failed for 3+ weeks straight while content-posting jobs ran fine.

<p>A ghost lock blocked every cron trigger for 6 hours after a Korean ad-network API took 45 seconds to respond — 15 seconds past the Workers wall clock limit.</p> <p>The Workers

<p>A monitoring script that dies quietly is worse than no monitoring at all. Mine proved it twice: first it reported a 7-day spend of <strong>$234 when <code>ccusage daily</code>

<p><strong>Authors:</strong> <a href="mailto:srastatter@google.com">Sean Rastatter</a>, <a href="mailto:rawanbadawi@google.com">Rawan Badawi</a></p> <p>Why do so many enterprises

<p><em>10,847 decision events. 3 surprising insights. And one $23 wake-up call that changed how I think about agent observability.</em></p> <h2> The $23 Mystery </h2> <p>I run a