re: separate process - fault-tolerance is a key requirement. There are a myriad of ways how a highly parallelized, network- and data-intensive code can fail, so

re: separate process - fault-tolerance is a key requirement. There are a myriad of ways how a highly parallelized, network- and data-intensive code can fail, so isolating it in a separate process is a safer approach than trying to try-except everything and hope it works. Good catch re: the warning about consistency! The docs were written before the change :)