The Application Lifecycle Problem Nobody Talks...

The Application Lifecycle Problem Nobody Talks About Until 3 AM It was 3 AM on a Tuesday when my pager went off. Our microservice had scaled to zero and then immediately back up to handle increased traffic. Simple enough, right? Except everything broke. Database connections were being requested before the connection pool finished initializing. Cache clients were serving stale data from the previous instance. HTTP handlers were accepting requests while our background job processor was still setti