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/dæɡ/ - n.

1 [colloq.] Acyclic in the diagram. The on-call rotation reports a cycle.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. Directed acyclic graph: a representation of pipeline tasks and their dependencies in which no task can depend on itself, directly or transitively.

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See also

brittle jobA job documented entirely in the muscle memory of the one person who knows which step to re-run first.
orchestrationThe discipline of deciding which job runs first, now practiced by three tools that each believe they are in charge.
schedulerThe component that decides when work happens, currently outvoted by a cron entry no one will admit to writing.
task dependencyThe reason the report is late, traced backward through eleven tasks to a file someone renamed.