https://flowchassis.com/tags/long-running-jobs/ Recent content in Long-Running Jobs on FlowChassis.com Hugo en-us Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://flowchassis.com/video-transcoding-with-flowchassis-survives-a-crash-without-starting-over/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://flowchassis.com/video-transcoding-with-flowchassis-survives-a-crash-without-starting-over/ <p>Some jobs take minutes or hours. Transcoding a long video is the classic one. The usual design is a worker that picks up the job and grinds through it, and when that worker dies at 80 percent, say because a deploy restarted it, the job starts again from zero.</p> <p>Starting over is fine once. On a busy system with regular deploys it means the longest jobs are the ones that never finish.</p>