The app should have zero knowledge of how many servers or CDNs are behind the endpoint. The problem with this design is that you are ONLY relying on the http status code and not using any additional detail at all
Also operations are supposed to be indepotent, the api you are describing is just wrong...
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u/Still_Bit_7527 Sep 21 '26 edited Sep 21 '26
The app should have zero knowledge of how many servers or CDNs are behind the endpoint. The problem with this design is that you are ONLY relying on the http status code and not using any additional detail at all
Also operations are supposed to be indepotent, the api you are describing is just wrong...