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sharklazer | 4 years 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”

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Linkd|4 years ago

And that's exactly how you DDOS your status server.

matthew-wegner|4 years ago

Why 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|4 years ago

Put a CDN in front of the status server. If that overwhelms your CDN then add some exponential back off to the mix.