Our codebase (not Node-based) is over a million lines of code. It's going to crash at some point. Probably even a lot. Thus, it has been built so that it can be

Our codebase (not Node-based) is over a million lines of code. It's going to crash at some point. Probably even a lot. Thus, it has been built so that it can be restarted without too much issue or ceremony. This is doubly helpful because, as a side-effect, you can spin up or down new instances pretty easily because that operation is highly similar to crash recovery via restarting.