Introducing Miranda: Why Miranda Wont Crash

In preparation for a talk I'm giving at DOSUG I'm going to post my thoughts as they develop.  At this point, I'm filling in gaps, so things might jump around a bit.

Miranda wont crash for the following reasons

• Miranda is distributed.  It can lose one availability region and keep going.  When a node does come up, it will receive all the information it missed.
• Each subsystem runs in its own thread. If one thread crashes, the other threads can keep going.
• Miranda uses panics instead of System.exit.  That way, a lone method cannot terminate the system.
• Miranda catches Exception.  So an uncaught exception wont crash the system.
• Miranda has lots of tests. So a bug is unlikely to cause trouble.