1. A reconfigurable system for monitoring the health of a complex system comprising: a computing node comprising: a memory; and a processor communicatively connected to the memory, the processor configured to: receive a plurality of standardized executable application modules, each standardized executable application module being a basic un-modifiable software object containing instructions to perform one of a plurality of different standardized functions after being configured by a separate binary configuration file; receive the separate binary configuration file including data which configures the standardized executable application modules and configures the memory by creating at least one data structure at a location in the memory used by at least one of the plurality of standardized executable application modules to configure at least one of the plurality of different standardized functions, wherein creating the at least one data structure at the location in the memory based upon a definition associated with the at least one data structure in the separate binary configuration file, and the at least one the data structure is associated with at least one property with a default value stored in the separate binary configuration file that used by the standardized executable application modules to access the at least one data structure; and load the standardized executable application modules and the separate binary configuration file in the memory.