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Monitoring crashed workers and rescuing stuck jobs

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Description

Hello there!

After reading about leader election, updating timestamps, my initial thought was that rescuer would also monitor all workers that have running jobs attached to them.

I assumed that all workers would update some kind of a healthcheck timestamp every 5 seconds or so. And if some worker hasn't updated their timestamp in a reasonable time period, all its currently running jobs should be rescued.

However, I see that jobs are only rescued based on a global rescue timeout.

What do you think about this?

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the rescuer, worker, leader-election, and global rescue-timeout behavior described in the issue. Compare the proposed worker healthcheck timestamps with the current rescue model and identify failure cases and design constraints. Done means the project has an agreed approach and clear behavior for detecting failed workers and rescuing their jobs.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
backend, distributed-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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