That’s a good point. Ideally, if we had complete control over how applications behave on startup, we could design them to “self-heal” and avoid dependency issues altogether. However, many of the components in the systems we work with are either closed source or require more experience and expertise to modify.
We’ve also noticed that, in practice, for many data-critical production systems, many of our customers prefer to manually control the boot process to confirm data integrity.
The scenario of partial crashes is interesting. I need to think about how to handle that a bit more. Thanks for the feedback!