# Recovery owner

Term `recovery-owner`. The component responsible for observing worker failure and choosing what happens next.

Practitioner: Logan, Merritt, Carlsson. Read in: *Erlang and OTP in Action*, fault tolerance through links and supervisor restart strategy. This is our glossary label. The book and section identify the underlying principle; the author did not coin the label.

## Skills
- [uncomplect](/skills/uncomplect)

## Sources
- Logan, Martin; Merritt, Eric; Carlsson, Richard. *Erlang and OTP in Action*. [Link](https://www.manning.com/books/erlang-and-otp-in-action). ([b1-erlang-and-otp-in-action](/bibliography#b1-erlang-and-otp-in-action))