Robust Web Application Initialization

When a web based application starts up, it should do so carefully to avoid a number of problems.  This post outlines the problems you might run into, and a list of coding preparations that can be made to avoid these problems.

Quest for Stability

A friend referred me to this excellent article about preparing for system disaster:  Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure.  This is related to a theme I have been calling “robustness”.