> We had createScheduledPosts.ts that would run every 15 minutes, scan our table of scheduled posts and create any that needed to be published.
Why not set the publication_date when you create a post and have a function getPublishedPosts that fetches a list of posts, filtering out those with a publication_date earlier than the current date? With this approach, you don't need cron jobs at all.
I think this is a fabrication by the journalist. Overall, it seems to me that there was an ideological agenda behind this story. In the USSR, no topic could cause a stir in major media outlets without an ideological directive.
So, it's impossible to transfer a value from one machine to another if there's no network connection between them? How did this extremely trivial observation become a well-known theorem?