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Salon, One of the Web's Pioneering News Outlets, Shuts Down After 31 Years

"It has been an extraordinary privilege," says the subheading on Thursday's announcement. After 31 years Salon.com will stop publishing, according to an announcement which appeared on the site under…

  • Salon closes after 31 years of pioneering web journalism
  • 19 full-time employees affected by closure
  • Founded in 1995 to reshape journalism on the internet

The Budget Guard Refunded Twice, So the Batch Outlived Its Cap

The short version: my token budget guard refunded the same reservation on every retry. The counter drifted upward, the batch ran past its cap, and half the shards died at the worst moment.

  • Budget guard refunded the same reservation on every retry
  • Batch capacity exceeded, causing half of the shards to fail
  • Counter replaced with append-only event log for debugging

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