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202 Accepted is a promise, not a receipt
Accepting a request you never validated moves the failure off your caller and onto your customer, hours later, on a channel nobody is watching.
Your read-replica fallback only catches absence
A fallback wired to exceptions handles a replica that is gone. It is structurally blind to one that is merely behind, and that is the failure that returns a 200 with the wrong number.
Why zero-downtime deployments need a reverse proxy
The one architectural constraint people miss when building GitOps for Docker Compose, and why I couldn't design it away.