TIL that our standard Windoze mantra…
Windoze – reboot
…can be summed up into a neat technical term called Erlang’s approach.
The article also goes a bit into detail why this may not be enough.
For the time being, let’s keep it as a reminder that our used software nowadays is just too complicated to analyse deeply why it failed – let it crash and let it start anew is oftentimes better. It doesn’t remember the state before the crash? No problem: let the human do the rest. LOL.