hello monks!

I came into programming a few months ago, having been a support engineer in a HA (high availability) environment. So this means having to look for 'single points of failure' in order to minimise downtime and disruption as much as possible.

im current writing a script which involves storing data in memory via hashes for a period of time while the script finishes.

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in my eyes it's a point of failure.. isn't it?.. if the application crashes for some reason.. due to power or perhaps even faulty memory.. how can i recover from that point

tl;dr are there any programmers concepts I should read about? concerning recovering from situation where data tempoaraly stored in ram is lost due to environmental issues?

In reply to methods of recovering from ram issues by bigmoose

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