Production Batch Jobs and Serverless Functions
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Batch job operations
Run scripts on cloud hardware with observable inputs and outputs.
Batch Job Operations
Batch jobs turn scripts into repeatable cloud operations. The script may be simple, but the operational contract should be explicit.
Job contract
- input location,
- output location,
- VM type and region,
- environment,
- retries,
- owner,
- success signal.
CLI-shaped example
coiled batch run --memory 64GB --region us-west-2 python jobs/build_features.py
Production habit
Every recurring job should answer: what did it read, what did it write, how long did it take, and who gets paged if it fails?