Your servers can report high availability while clients can't reach them
Franc0Fernand0 · x · 2026-10-13
A classic distributed-systems insight: a network cut drops availability for clients, yet servers can still look perfectly healthy because they were up the whole time. What matters is the system the client can actually use — availability must be measured from the user's side, not the server's self-reported health.
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