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I recently came across scanned notes from a TechReady conference from (I think) 2007 and came across my notes on Recovery-oriented computing. It's a method for developing reliable Internet (cloud!) services. The idea is to reduce the effects of harmful events, like Bohr- and Heisenbugs, amongst other scenarios:

The intent is to automate the recovery process depicted above. This leads to some interesting side-scenarios, like obtaining database connection strings, automating database creation, and application configuration.

Some of these things are relatively easy to automate these days. What I found useful was to apply a similar philosophy to Interact client applications, which run on the desktop and don't benefit from technologies like Red Dog and SCCM (Azure today).

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