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NPR's liveblog rig 2.0
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Fault tolerance #17

Closed thomaswilburn closed 4 years ago

thomaswilburn commented 4 years ago

The build system is currently built around local runs, which means it's okay if it falls over from time to time. We don't need to be quite as explicit as the old liveblog (especially since we kept tuning down the warnings that freak people out), but we should have some degree of fault tolerance built in. Questions we should answer:

thomaswilburn commented 4 years ago

I feel good about this--errors in parsing do not over the liveblog, and errors in templating halt the process before publishing. The systemd unit then restarts five seconds after the crash.