Adding durability to in-memory data structures

Question

What are some of the popular techniques you can adopt to add durability to your in-memory data structures (ie) if the process crashes, you can preserve all previously ex

Answer 1

You could come up with some way to serialize your structure, whether with XML, YAML, JSON, etc. Then you could either store that in the DB, or perhaps put one big try/catch around the main execution point to the program. Then if some uncaught exception happens, which will cause the program to crash, you could serialize your data, ans well as log any error messages, stack traces, etc.