Funnily enough, last time I set up a supervision tree hierarchy with Upstart, I was thinking the whole time, "this would be so much nicer with Erlang." I think

Funnily enough, last time I set up a supervision tree hierarchy with Upstart, I was thinking the whole time, "this would be so much nicer with Erlang." I think that was my a-ha moment for OTP. For most standalone systems though, Upstart works nicely enough as long as services don't need too much coordination.