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As I remember a year or two ago they were convinced, that it is ok to send real user's request to a dead backend from time to time to check if it's alive, argui
by zzzcpan 13y ago
As I remember a year or two ago they were convinced, that it is ok to send real user's request to a dead backend from time to time to check if it's alive, arguing that dedicated health check wasn't going to make a difference.
- jedberg 13y agoThe problem with that is the user's request may have generated a legitimate error, or it may not be a good test of all the functionally. If you write your software with a dedicated healthcheck url, it's much more robust because you can test all critical functionality with that helthcheck (just make sure you block access to it from the outside otherwise someone has a really easy way to DDOS you!).