TL;DR — Migrating a long-running cron-based scraper to an actor architecture does not require a rewrite. It requires six structural changes applied in order. Each one is independently shippable. Each one moves the scraper closer to a state where infrastructure is no longer your problem. We migrated our interview transcription pipeline this way over four iterations. Here's the order I'd run it again. I've watched too many migrations fail because someone said "let's rewrite this as an actor" and t