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No, not really. If your calls time out, ping the status server. Done. It sounds more like laziness than complication to me. But that typifies Slack dev culture
by sharklazer 5y ago
No, not really. If your calls time out, ping the status server. Done.
It sounds more like laziness than complication to me. But that typifies Slack dev culture—“just use duct tape”
- Linkd 5y agoAnd that's exactly how you DDOS your status server.
- matthew-wegner 5y agoWhy can't they put a status.json file on S3/CloudFront/R2/wherever? And in an absolute worst-case infra collapse, someone there could manually edit/upload a new one...
- charcircuit 5y agoPut a CDN in front of the status server. If that overwhelms your CDN then add some exponential back off to the mix.