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		layer8 on March 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The simplicity of single-file Golang deployments They should, but you don’t know if they will, and, when they suddenly crash after two years, whether they will be able to restart. Restarting daily ensures that any problems will be caught early, and that the last known-good configuration is only a day ago and not two years ago.

whateveracct on March 23, 2023 [–]

Restarting daily also ensures you never find entire classes of lurking bugs involving memory leaks, in-memory caches, stuff like that.

layer8 on March 23, 2023 | [–]

On the other hand, they also never become relevant then.

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