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by kefka_p 1265 days ago
Fault tolerance was how Next branded it, IIRC. If an instance of a long running process doesn’t communicate with an external monitor, then it’s assumed to have hung or crashed at which point it is restarted by the external tool. Or at least that’s how things were done in the early/mid 90s. Like techniques are employed by Node apps these days, and undoubtedly many others.