Conflict Questions

Two weeks before the meeting that would approve the retry rule, the lead engineer of the data team sent the platform Staff engineer a written objection: "Our users depend on automatic retries on our scheduler. We will not ask them to review 900 job definitions." The data team owned scheduler B, which ran 16,000 of the marketplace's 42,000 jobs a day. Without the data team, the rule would cover fewer than two thirds of the company's jobs.

Before the meeting, the data team agreed to a changed plan for applying the rule to scheduler B, and its lead presented part of that plan at the meeting