2 docs tagged with "reliability"

Any Runnable can be wrapped with retry and fallback behavior, and any call can carry per-invocation configuration — without changing the chain's shape.

A watchdog does not detect that your software is wrong. It detects that one specific piece of code stopped executing, and it reboots the system when that happens. Everything about designing a watchdog into a product follows from taking that sentence literally: the watchdog proves exactly what you make it prove, and not one thing more.