25th November 2021
TIL
Pausing traffic and retrying in Caddy
— A pattern I really like for zero-downtime deploys is the ability to "pause" HTTP traffic at the load balancer, such that incoming requests from browsers appear to take a few extra seconds to return, but under the hood they've actually been held in a queue while a backend server is swapped out or upgraded in some way.
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