So just to play to your hypothetical. If there were two login methods, and they were separate microservices, if only one failed and the other remained up, that

So just to play to your hypothetical. If there were two login methods, and they were separate microservices, if only one failed and the other remained up, that would be the graceful failure scenario. I'm not telling you that you must to do this. Others may have requirements that go beyond yours.