Sure but it's something thats easily overlooked or neglected, many tutorials might tell a beginner to do it but not _why_ to do it which is important. It's also

Sure but it's something thats easily overlooked or neglected, many tutorials might tell a beginner to do it but not _why_ to do it which is important. It's also easy to hardcode during testing or development and forget about. Why would someone without a software background expect that a url could change from under them? > Also, I would look to configure all components to fail loudly, so that if something wouldn't connect to Redid, my server just wouldn't launch. In this case though the OP did not have control over the redis connection handling it was through a dependency that silently timed out.