Things are time bound by instruction creation - at some point you still need a human to dictate the instructions that the orchestrated agents use. From there I've found that -- (1) derive a goal from the instructions (2) break that goal into tasks (3) order those tasks into a DAG (5) spawn the agents to work via the DAG -- seems to be doing everything I want it to do.
If at the time when I was cutting my teeth on systemd, I had access to something more lightweight and "do one thing well", I think I would've gotten a lot more sleep :)
https://github.com/ra0x3/systemg
I'm personally tired of getting stuck in config/deployment hell every time I want to deploy a long-lived web service. Sure I eventually learned how to use systemd, but systemd has SO many things baked into that I simply don't need. systemg is a lightweight process supervisor that features everything you'd typically want when running/managing production web services in the wild.
Would love feedback.