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Cron jobs to fix data vs TTL

Growingest.Started 31 Aug 20261 min read#engineering#system-design

Inspired by System Design Interview: Design Ticketmaster w/ a Ex-Meta Staff Engineer

Cron jobs to fix data TTLin the trade-off explorer →

Where it sits: Batch / stream

Depending on the data you need to fix, if it's simply releasing something, then a TTL on a row is better.

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