A Hanging Dedup Fetch Killed Our Daily Blog for a Week
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The Week Our Blog Went Silent For seven days, our automated blog pipeline produced nothing. No posts, no errors in Slack, no pages. The cron job showed as running. The logs showed it starting. And then: nothing. The process just sat there, alive but useless, until the next scheduled run kicked off another zombie alongside it. This is the story of how a single hanging HTTP fetch inside a Promise.all took down our entire content automation system, why no alert fired, and exactly what w