A developer encountered persistent timeouts with their vault-auto-ingest job, which processes conversation logs for a wiki. The issue stemmed from a specific step, step2, exceeding its 40-minute time limit during peak usage, preventing a success marker from being set and causing subsequent retries to fail. To resolve this, the developer implemented "sub-step idempotency" by splitting step2 into two independent tasks: one for Claude logs and one for Codex logs, each with its own marker file. This change ensures that if one sub-step times out, only that specific part is retried in a later slot, rather than the entire process. AI
IMPACT Provides a practical example of managing AI-generated data processing challenges with robust scripting techniques.
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