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Nginx outage joke casts web server as silent air traffic control

Original: Tower: Nginx, confirm you are receiving traffic. Nginx: … Tower: Nginx, say again. Application... # devops # webdev # li

Developers are sharing a joke styled as air traffic control chatter, with a 'tower' repeatedly calling Nginx and getting no answer, before a watchdog reports that the reverse proxy has been lost. The gag plays on the common experience of a web server silently going down and monitoring systems having to break the news.

Why now: The relatable scenario of a reverse proxy failing silently resonates with developers who manage web infrastructure.

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