> Often, there's no business case to run an automated process daily.
Almost 100% of the cases I have run daily, hourly and even less (5,10,20,30 minutes schedule are common). I even had one recently that executed millions of requests to some REST API daily, running every few seconds. I call those "app supporting scripts", and I offload specific features of the main app to those.
Must be architectural thing I guess, I work as principal architect and I design most of my services so that they rely heavily on automation support.
> Is this an admission that automation is not worth it when the processes or inputs change too often?
I don't work in a vacuum. For me there are no rules about anything, context is most important (patterns, best practices etc. are for newbies). That case does lean to the manual side on first thought, but it all depends on other factors.
Almost 100% of the cases I have run daily, hourly and even less (5,10,20,30 minutes schedule are common). I even had one recently that executed millions of requests to some REST API daily, running every few seconds. I call those "app supporting scripts", and I offload specific features of the main app to those.
Must be architectural thing I guess, I work as principal architect and I design most of my services so that they rely heavily on automation support.
> Is this an admission that automation is not worth it when the processes or inputs change too often?
I don't work in a vacuum. For me there are no rules about anything, context is most important (patterns, best practices etc. are for newbies). That case does lean to the manual side on first thought, but it all depends on other factors.