One late task stalls forty downstream jobs every morning. Design a scheduler that owns dependencies, SLAs, and backfills.

Cron fires at wall-clock times; a scheduler reasons about data intervals and blocked frontiers. The scored details are per-partition idempotency and catch-up semantics.

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Cron fires at wall-clock times; a scheduler reasons about data intervals and blocked frontiers. The scored details are per-partition idempotency and catch-up semantics.

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