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A daemon is a long-running background process on Unix-like servers that runs without a terminal and provides a service such as SSH, cron or a web…
A graceful restart reloads a server process with new configuration or code while letting in-flight requests finish, so clients see no dropped connections.
PM2 is a process manager for Node.js that keeps applications running, restarts them after crashes, runs cluster mode and manages logs on servers.
A process ID is the numeric identifier an operating system assigns to each running process, used to signal, monitor and manage server services and workers.
A process supervisor is a program that starts, monitors and restarts server processes, keeping long-running services alive under defined policies.
Supervisord is a Python-based process supervisor for Unix-like servers that starts, monitors and automatically restarts long-running programs.
A worker process is a child process on servers that a master process starts to handle requests or jobs in parallel, isolating failures and load.