Ben Stancil, co-founder of Mode, talks about the importance of monitoring cron jobs and the development of his company. He explains how Chronitor provides a unified monitoring solution for various types of background jobs with an easy-to-use API and SDKs for different job platforms.
Benn Stancil’s weekly Substack on data and technology provides a fascinating perspective on the modern data stack & the industry building it. On this episode, Benn joins Jerod to dissect a few of his essays, discuss opportunities he sees during this slowdown & explain why he thinks maybe we should disband the analytics team.
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