OpenAI API rate limit errors after CronJob scheduling conflict

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Problem Three Kubernetes clusters (us‑east‑1, eu‑central‑1, ap‑southeast‑2) run identical CronJob manifests that trigger a batch inference worker every 5 minutes. The workers pull pending requests from a shared DynamoDB table and invoke the OpenAI GPT‑4o endpoint. After a recent deployment, the OpenAI API started returning 429 Too Many Requests errors, and the logs showed duplicate processing … Read more

Weaviate CronJob scheduling conflict in Kubernetes

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Problem Description In a production Weaviate deployment several CronJob resources are used: Nightly backup (02:00) Index compaction (02:30) Data synchronization (every 15 minutes) Operators observed the following symptoms: Backup logs contain “Failed to acquire lock for backup”. Kubernetes controller logs show “CronJob is already running” for the index job. Occasional “Backoff limit exceeded” events after the … Read more