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Cross-posting to social media: a deep dive into state, idempotency, and broken Cyrillic

An engineer shares lessons from automating cross-posting of blog articles to social networks. The task turned out to be a complex pipeline with multiple failure zones, requiring careful handling of timeouts, image formats, API responses, and text encoding. Key takeaways include separating package, transport, and QC, and using hard gates for verification.

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