Poll: What do you use for Unix process management/monitoring?

Re:Poll: What do you use for Unix process management/monitor... by octo_t on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @05:04AM (#6088952)

you have clearly never written a distributed system or similar. Fail Fast, Fail Often.

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Re:Poll: What do you use for Unix process management/monitor... by harrytuttle on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @05:16AM (#6088984)

That mantra is simply bullshit.

I have written massively distributed systems which have an insanely high reliability requirement and it is really not the answer. I've been doing this for 25 years.

A more appropriate statement is:

  Fail early and gracefully, recover always, expect failure.

Fail early - assertions up front. Prevention is better than cure.

Fail gracefully - don't allow assertions to take the entire process out. Don't allow the language to crash the process out.

Recover always - design your system for recovery and understand recovery conditions.

Expect failure - know where and when something is going to fail and handle it.

Fail fast, fail often results in nasty shit like processes hung in restart cycles etc.

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Re:Poll: What do you use for Unix process management/monitor... by tel on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @07:54AM (#6089426)

This is much closer to the actual Erlang philosophy that gets misquoted so often.

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