I think God is useful for "prototyping" an app environment. It's got a nice DSL and b/c it's ruby, it's turing complete. It's great for stage servers where flex

I think God is useful for "prototyping" an app environment. It's got a nice DSL and b/c it's ruby, it's turing complete. It's great for stage servers where flexibility and productivity are more important than a couple nines of uptime. Monit's config is fairly straight forward, but the monit daemon can be quirky and unpredictable at times, and I usually have to hack out a bash script b/c monit is pretty limited on what it can actually do. So I start with God, then translate that into Monit + scripts when I get to production.