Taking Caddy Out of the Deploy Path — the Structural Problem Was Touching a SPOF Automatically
Every deploy took the whole stack down for 60–100 seconds. Blue-green removed most of it, but five seconds stayed at the reverse proxy — and the real cost of those five seconds was not five seconds. It was the variance: five seconds, or indefinitely. So we took it out of the deploy path entirely.
Reliability · · 14 min read