While this is pretty sketchy, I DO like the design principle of ephemeral subsystems. It just makes sense to assume a service can go down at any time for any re

While this is pretty sketchy, I DO like the design principle of ephemeral subsystems. It just makes sense to assume a service can go down at any time for any reason, from its conception, and bake that into how it's built. You could argue periodically restarting things is just a natural extension of that.