This guide walks through version your cloudflare kv cms schema without orphan drafts on the Favokres publish path. The goal is an operator contract, not filler copy. Each section leaves a measurable checkpoint.
Why schema drift orphans drafts
Multi-locale CMS rows stored as one KV JSON blob rot quietly: a missing status field, a new localeNative flag, or a renamed categorySlug can leave thousands of drafts that never pass the publish gate. Operators then blame the cron while the real failure is schema mismatch between writers and readers.
Practice step 1 on a staging KV copy first; a one-line write bug in production can corrupt the whole list. Staging must share the same key names, schema version, and publish-gate rules so surprises stay rare.
Measure for section 1: elapsed time, skipped ids, and published-versus-draft ratio. Without numbers there is no improvement claim. Write those three counts into the activity log each cron tick; a green checkmark alone is not evidence.
On Favokres, keep the gaming PC light; the heavy work in step 1 belongs on the VDS tier. Opening twenty learning workers on the game box burns both the publish path and the user's session.
Never force-publish below the quality bar in section 1 — honest silence beats a soft-404 inventory. refuseNewPost and publishReady stay identical on the fallback path; the bar does not drop when the brain is down.
Internal links and cover images for section 1 must be ready at publish time. Posts without a cover or with a recycled Unsplash photo id look weak in SEO; if the pool is exhausted, use the synthetic cover fallback but keep it unique per slug.
When debugging section 1, read the wake ticket status: queued, completed_fallback, or error. A ticket stuck on queued for days means brain 530 or SSH publickey denial — that is not a queue, it is a missing executor.
Close this section with a checklist: schema version stamped, draft counter down, IndexNow only for published rows? If checkpoint 1 is skipped, the next cron will repeat the same failure.
A practical versioning contract
Treat every posts.json shape as a versioned document. Stamp schemaVersion on the root or on each row. Writers must refuse to persist rows that fail the current schema validator. Readers must ignore unknown fields but never invent defaults that flip published keepers into drafts.
Practice step 2 on a staging KV copy first; a one-line write bug in production can corrupt the whole list. Staging must share the same key names, schema version, and publish-gate rules so surprises stay rare.
Measure for section 2: elapsed time, skipped ids, and published-versus-draft ratio. Without numbers there is no improvement claim. Write those three counts into the activity log each cron tick; a green checkmark alone is not evidence.
On Favokres, keep the gaming PC light; the heavy work in step 2 belongs on the VDS tier. Opening twenty learning workers on the game box burns both the publish path and the user's session.
Never force-publish below the quality bar in section 2 — honest silence beats a soft-404 inventory. refuseNewPost and publishReady stay identical on the fallback path; the bar does not drop when the brain is down.
Internal links and cover images for section 2 must be ready at publish time. Posts without a cover or with a recycled Unsplash photo id look weak in SEO; if the pool is exhausted, use the synthetic cover fallback but keep it unique per slug.
When debugging section 2, read the wake ticket status: queued, completed_fallback, or error. A ticket stuck on queued for days means brain 530 or SSH publickey denial — that is not a queue, it is a missing executor.
Close this section with a checklist: schema version stamped, draft counter down, IndexNow only for published rows? If checkpoint 2 is skipped, the next cron will repeat the same failure.
Migration steps that stay reversible
When you bump schemaVersion, ship a one-shot migrator that rewrites only the fields you understand, logs every skipped id, and never deletes published keepers. Run the migrator from VDS or a Worker cron with a hard time budget; if the budget expires, leave a resume cursor in KV.
Practice step 3 on a staging KV copy first; a one-line write bug in production can corrupt the whole list. Staging must share the same key names, schema version, and publish-gate rules so surprises stay rare.
Measure for section 3: elapsed time, skipped ids, and published-versus-draft ratio. Without numbers there is no improvement claim. Write those three counts into the activity log each cron tick; a green checkmark alone is not evidence.
On Favokres, keep the gaming PC light; the heavy work in step 3 belongs on the VDS tier. Opening twenty learning workers on the game box burns both the publish path and the user's session.
Never force-publish below the quality bar in section 3 — honest silence beats a soft-404 inventory. refuseNewPost and publishReady stay identical on the fallback path; the bar does not drop when the brain is down.
Internal links and cover images for section 3 must be ready at publish time. Posts without a cover or with a recycled Unsplash photo id look weak in SEO; if the pool is exhausted, use the synthetic cover fallback but keep it unique per slug.
When debugging section 3, read the wake ticket status: queued, completed_fallback, or error. A ticket stuck on queued for days means brain 530 or SSH publickey denial — that is not a queue, it is a missing executor.
Close this section with a checklist: schema version stamped, draft counter down, IndexNow only for published rows? If checkpoint 3 is skipped, the next cron will repeat the same failure.
Publish gating after a schema bump
After migration, the publish gate should re-validate title, body length, locale match, and cover uniqueness. Anything that still fails stays draft and is purged on the next blog-daily tick — do not leave thin stubs in the admin list.
Practice step 4 on a staging KV copy first; a one-line write bug in production can corrupt the whole list. Staging must share the same key names, schema version, and publish-gate rules so surprises stay rare.
Measure for section 4: elapsed time, skipped ids, and published-versus-draft ratio. Without numbers there is no improvement claim. Write those three counts into the activity log each cron tick; a green checkmark alone is not evidence.
On Favokres, keep the gaming PC light; the heavy work in step 4 belongs on the VDS tier. Opening twenty learning workers on the game box burns both the publish path and the user's session.
Never force-publish below the quality bar in section 4 — honest silence beats a soft-404 inventory. refuseNewPost and publishReady stay identical on the fallback path; the bar does not drop when the brain is down.
Internal links and cover images for section 4 must be ready at publish time. Posts without a cover or with a recycled Unsplash photo id look weak in SEO; if the pool is exhausted, use the synthetic cover fallback but keep it unique per slug.
When debugging section 4, read the wake ticket status: queued, completed_fallback, or error. A ticket stuck on queued for days means brain 530 or SSH publickey denial — that is not a queue, it is a missing executor.
Close this section with a checklist: schema version stamped, draft counter down, IndexNow only for published rows? If checkpoint 4 is skipped, the next cron will repeat the same failure.
Ops checklist for solo operators
For solo operators: keep a single source of truth in git for the TypeScript types, mirror those types in the Python VDS writer, and add a health probe that counts drafts vs published keepers. If drafts exceed a small threshold, alert — do not keep generating.
Practice step 5 on a staging KV copy first; a one-line write bug in production can corrupt the whole list. Staging must share the same key names, schema version, and publish-gate rules so surprises stay rare.
Measure for section 5: elapsed time, skipped ids, and published-versus-draft ratio. Without numbers there is no improvement claim. Write those three counts into the activity log each cron tick; a green checkmark alone is not evidence.
On Favokres, keep the gaming PC light; the heavy work in step 5 belongs on the VDS tier. Opening twenty learning workers on the game box burns both the publish path and the user's session.
Never force-publish below the quality bar in section 5 — honest silence beats a soft-404 inventory. refuseNewPost and publishReady stay identical on the fallback path; the bar does not drop when the brain is down.
Internal links and cover images for section 5 must be ready at publish time. Posts without a cover or with a recycled Unsplash photo id look weak in SEO; if the pool is exhausted, use the synthetic cover fallback but keep it unique per slug.
When debugging section 5, read the wake ticket status: queued, completed_fallback, or error. A ticket stuck on queued for days means brain 530 or SSH publickey denial — that is not a queue, it is a missing executor.
Close this section with a checklist: schema version stamped, draft counter down, IndexNow only for published rows? If checkpoint 5 is skipped, the next cron will repeat the same failure.
Related resources
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