How do you save progress so a long job can pick up where it left off after a crash?
- Module
- 04/05
- To read
- ~5 min
A deployment agent kept its progress in a single Redis record that it overwrote at every step. Then a network partition hit Redis mid-run. What do you think happened?
In the module you make your guess first, then read what happened and why.
Append-Only Transition Logs
Deterministic Rehydration
Compaction & Snapshot Checkpoints
Schema Migration Versioning
A save-and-continue plan for long jobs
A spec for your own app, as a text file you download. The module also gives you the prompt for Claude Code, Codex or Antigravity, a checklist to check what it built, and recommended skills.
- Optimistic locking
- Failover can lose writes