An interactive explainer

Your app stops at 3 A.M. Who starts it again?

Deploying is not a place you put your code. It is a loop. Something compares what should be running with what is running, then fixes the difference. On a rented machine that something is you, at 7 A.M. Climb until the loop is a machine, then meet the one thing it still cannot see.

Deployment · Reconciliation loops · Process supervision

Deployment & Cloud · Beginner · 9 min · Who restarts your app at 3 A.M.? — an interactive explainer on ViLearn, with a simulation and a knowledge check. All explainers.

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