Re:WTF is a container?
by chewchew on Monday October 17, 2016 @02:13PM
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As someone said, this is the normal behavior in the Erlang/Elixir world, and it seems to have worked extremely well for the telecom industry.
That said, my reply was to someone running an IRC server, presumably on a single server, so don't stretch my advice to a production app handling millions of transactions. Obviously the core issue is that the app crashes, and it's still up to him to fix that. This is almost certainly a problem with his app/config, not Docker itself (though it ain't perfect). If it's something that happens every 6 months, then auto restarting will probably save him a lot of problems. If your transactions are so precious, don't pass the flag- it's up to you.
That said, my reply was to someone running an IRC server, presumably on a single server, so don't stretch my advice to a production app handling millions of transactions. Obviously the core issue is that the app crashes, and it's still up to him to fix that. This is almost certainly a problem with his app/config, not Docker itself (though it ain't perfect). If it's something that happens every 6 months, then auto restarting will probably save him a lot of problems. If your transactions are so precious, don't pass the flag- it's up to you.