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In some systems it's also nice to have a "canary" acting as the user to call your API every minute or so. Then even during low / no traffic hours you can still
by mkeedlinger 7y ago
In some systems it's also nice to have a "canary" acting as the user to call your API every minute or so. Then even during low / no traffic hours you can still catch errors/outages/etc.
- lrem 7y agoThat's a prober, not a canary.
- nitrogen 7y agoSometimes things can be described in more than one way. Canary, readiness probe, health check, heartbeat, etc. It makes communication more efficient and enjoyable when all parties are aware of this.
- lrem 7y agoYes, there are many words in the space. But there are also many classes of systems. It makes communication more efficient and enjoyable if all parties can think of the same thing when hearing a word.