I should have been more clear, if my service crashed and was located behind a load-balancer the client would receive a 502 Bad Gateway response. That's based on

I should have been more clear, if my service crashed and was located behind a load-balancer the client would receive a 502 Bad Gateway response. That's based on the premise that I'm not writing the load-balancer and that it's been well tested and doesn't suffer from ungraceful handling of malloc failure. So yes it's important for a small subset writing things like load-balancers.