When Your Bandaid Needs a Bandaid: Migrating Away From Automerge in Production

One of our client's schedules got too large for Automerge. I was running a cron job daily just to keep the schedule alive. That's when I knew we had a real problem. ** The Background ** We build scheduling software for film and TV production. Offline availability and real-time collaboration are not nice-to-haves — they are the product. We chose Automerge early because it was purpose built for exactly that. It worked beautifully. Until it didn't. ** The bandaid ** The fix was a cron job. Simple e