Guix for Corporate "Batch Jobs"?

[Yasuaki Kudo <yasu@yasuaki.com>]

Hi,

In many so-called Application Support jobs in the enterprises, one of the core responsibilities is to see through the daily completion of "batch jobs" - those I/O heavy processes that take a long time to run, even with parallel processing.

And at the core of it is to "re-run" the jobs, after due troubleshooting.

In many workplaces I have seen, teams ended up writing their own job schedulers based on cron or used proprietary software such as Autosys (and in Japan, there are local brews such as A-Auto, if I remember the name correctly).

But none of the solutions above take good care of the mechanical incremental computation aspect and a lot of optimization (say skip this and that because they don't matter during re-runs) depend on the operators' sweat and judgement 😅   
 
Can Guix be put into good use in this area do you think?  Or maybe another way of asking this question is, can Guix be used a general compiler such as 'make'?  Knowing that 'make' still exists so - is there any reason why Guix just can't take over?

Maybe similar questions have been already asked in the Nix world as well?   I would love to know! 😄

-Yasu