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Funny thing, I had same experience. I also built robust ETL. It was for ingesting and manipulating financial data from 30+ different banks and I also did Pokemon Exception Handling to make it robust.

In general my philosophy is: I don't want to wake up at 4am unless it's urgent. What can I do to gracefully handle failures to achieve that goal?

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Exactly, thank you. At the time I was transitioning from a jack of all trades person to strictly a programmer. I despise getting called in the middle of the night.

My feeling is that, if you have a foundational business process like this, it should be designed to be maintained if there is a serious problem, and it ought to keep working. I know, haha, "the Internet is a series of tubes" but I really wanted this thing to be like a chunk of very uninteresting ductwork that just moves air from one place to another: it should just do its job with as much fanfare.

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