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Self-healing by design: convergence and eventual consistency across Fibe

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Here is the uncomfortable truth at the heart of any platform that runs other people's code on machines it doesn't fully own: the moment after you deploy something, it starts to be wrong. A container OOMs. A host reboots. A VM's clock skews. Someone pushes a new image. The network blips for ninety seconds and a healthcheck misses. None of this is exotic — it's Tuesday. The interesting question isn't whether reality will drift from what you asked for. It's what your system does in the gap.

Fibe's answer is the oldest good idea in operations, applied uniformly: you declare what you want, and a control loop drives the world back toward it. You say "this Playground should be running." Somewhere a reconciler wakes up every sixty seconds, looks at the actual Docker truth on your Marquee, notices it disagrees, and does exactly one thing to close the gap. Then it goes back to sleep. The state you typed is the source of truth; everything the containers are actually doing is just evidence.