Concrete systemd unit patterns that reduced flakiness: restart policies, resource limits, and structured logs.
After a few painful outages caused by homemade init scripts, we moved everything to systemd and wrote down the patterns that worked.
We had a service that occasionally failed to bind its port on boot.
```ini [Unit] Description=API service After=network-online.target Wants=network-online.target
[Service] ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/api Restart=on-failure RestartSec=5
[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target ```
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Concrete systemd unit patterns that reduced flakiness: restart policies, resource limits, and structured logs.
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Concrete systemd unit patterns that reduced flakiness: restart policies, resource limits, and structured logs.