Hello All!
Could anyone one give us some guidance on when to use a bot as opposed to, perhaps, a script fired off from a client box via cron or other?
The use case I have in mind is integrity checking for certain constraints that our legacy data platform enforced but that are not directly enforceable in our current setup. For examples:
- Detecting when our external identifier has an illegal value (which has sometimes happened and has been difficult to detect by eye)
- Detecting when one of our objects (i.e. one that is marked with that external identifier) has an item-valued property that is filled with an object of the wrong type
I think it would give us some comfort to know that such integrity violations are detected. We would probably like to add more constraints as we go along. We might extend that code eventually to try to automatically fix such things, but for now, just detecting them would be great.
Does a bot make sense for that use case?
Thanks,
Max Ziff