Place 1: Cron jobs edited on the box via vim, and every night they're scraped and off there are diffs, they're committed. Kind of like reverse management. It was actually a pretty elegant solution for the environment it was in, where devs just could not be convinced to not just edit the crontab directly.

Place 2: no cron jobs, it's all either airflow tasks or a bespoke managed clustering cron-like thing.

Place 3: all k8s scheduled job pods, conceptually the same but somehow less enjoyable.

Honestly I liked the airflow version the best, python is just better than bash, and often cron jobs end up developing dependencies anyway. Plus Python lets you wire in many niceties.

I am glad you guys like it.