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4th November 2026Recurring Jobs with Wolverine and CritterWatchEvery system has work that runs on a schedule. Wolverine turns a cron job into an ordinary message, so it gets the outbox, retries, dead letters, OpenTelemetry tracing and once-per-cluster execution for free, and CritterWatch 1.2 lets you see, pause, resume and trigger every schedule across your fleet. Plus how Wolverine treats a nightly job differently from one that fires every few seconds, and why.
5th August 2026Metadata All the Way Down: Correlation, Causation, and Headers Across Wolverine, Marten, and PolecatEvery serious event sourced system eventually needs to answer 'what caused this event, and who did it?' The Critter Stack establishes correlation, causation, saga, user, and tenant metadata on Wolverine message envelopes — seeded straight from OpenTelemetry activities — then relays all of it onto the events Marten and Polecat store, with storage you can dial from lean to rich.
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4th November 2026Recurring Jobs with Wolverine and CritterWatchEvery system has work that runs on a schedule. Wolverine turns a cron job into an ordinary message, so it gets the outbox, retries, dead letters, OpenTelemetry tracing and once-per-cluster execution for free, and CritterWatch 1.2 lets you see, pause, resume and trigger every schedule across your fleet. Plus how Wolverine treats a nightly job differently from one that fires every few seconds, and why.5th August 2026Metadata All the Way Down: Correlation, Causation, and Headers Across Wolverine, Marten, and PolecatEvery serious event sourced system eventually needs to answer 'what caused this event, and who did it?' The Critter Stack establishes correlation, causation, saga, user, and tenant metadata on Wolverine message envelopes — seeded straight from OpenTelemetry activities — then relays all of it onto the events Marten and Polecat store, with storage you can dial from lean to rich.