Re:Bioluminescent petunias now available for U.S. market
by Karrot_Kream on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @12:14AM
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I see you're the author of Caddy, cool! Sometimes in Big Tech, this is a way to realize that some backend service is having issues because a proxy in front of the service is still returning a response. It's a rare failure case at most companies though.
Re:Bioluminescent petunias now available for U.S. market
by jhardy54 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:46AM
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Isn’t that what the previous comment said? I don’t think HTTP 504 is specific to Big Tech.
Re:Bioluminescent petunias now available for U.S. market
by tyre on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:50AM
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Explaining 504s to the author of Caddy is a move, to be sure.
Re:Bioluminescent petunias now available for U.S. market
by mholt on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @11:22AM
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I don't mind; my initial gut reaction forgot what the 504 was about. It's also helpful to other readers not as familiar with the topic! :)
Re:Bioluminescent petunias now available for U.S. market
by Karrot_Kream on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:28PM
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What's the point of being so snappy and not assume good faith? I was just saying that sometimes it's fun to probe big tech during an outage, see a 504 and see `awselb` as the user agent returned, and get some outside visibility into what's going on inside. I recommend everyone do it, it's fun! It's like using eclipse glasses to look at an eclipse or binoculars to see jets in the sky.
So I opened the dev tools and found the HTTP response of 504. Oh! Their site is down, it's not just me.
Then I looked at the response headers.
*skull emoji*(Of course, after my initial heart-sink, I realized that this means their backend is down, and Caddy is serving up the response just fine. Phew.)