Building a status page exposed the lag — and fixing observability fixed the app
airkatakana · x · 2026-09-26
Developer airkatakana shares an ironic anecdote: after building a functioning status page, he realized how often his app was lagging — and then fixed it. Making the status page ended up fixing the status issues, a pattern he notes is "many such cases" in engineering.
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