So I made a bad trade in my fantasy baseball league. Dropped Kaz Okamoto because — according to my data — he’d been cold for two weeks. In reality, he’s been on a tear for the last 9 days. 😅 This was a bad decision made because of bad data — my stats cron job had hit a rate limit, exited with no errors, and my FastAPI backend kept serving a stale JSON snapshot. Well, I’d been meaning to fix that setup anyway. This time I did — and instead of patching the script, I tried out Temporal and…it worked embarrassingly well . Retries, backoff, execution history — things I’d normally bolt on manually were just… there. And if the network layer itself was flaky — rate limits, geo blocks — I could just add a proxy as a hardening layer. This actually prompted me to go look at some of our production ingest jobs at work, and I thought: these are the same pattern, just with more surface area! I ended up swapping out one of them, tentatively, then another. Same pattern, just more scale.…