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Chanh Le
Chanh Le

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Managing Background Services with Supervisor

I’ve been using Supervisor lately to manage background services, and it’s been surprisingly handy.

What stands out to me is how flexible it is: you can update the configuration from the CLI, reload it, and even scale the number of processes — all without restarting the ones that are already running. That’s a big deal if you care about avoiding downtime.

A few things I find useful:

  • Start, stop, and restart services individually
  • Reload configs on the fly
  • Adjust the number of worker processes without taking everything down

It’s not fancy, but it gets the job done and keeps process management straightforward.

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