The exhausting reality is that in the age of widely distributed services, everything is always broken enough that someone's use case is going to choke and die.

The exhausting reality is that in the age of widely distributed services, everything is always broken enough that someone's use case is going to choke and die. When the best case involves total failure for a small percentage of people, what does green even mean? Author had their own monitoring, that's the only workable approach.