Supporting heterogeneous environments during code deployment

Abstract

When servers hosting a website are under some form of deployment activity (e.g., a software update being in mid-deployment), the resources requested may not be available from all servers hosting the website. In such mid-deployment edge cases, the server would return an error message in response to the request. According to an application employing redirect instructions via a load balancer, a redirect function (such as a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) status code 302) may be configured to redirect a client request to the same location as an initial request, via a load balancer, in order to provide the client with multiple attempts of reaching an updated host (e.g., a server hosting a resource based on a recent deployment), without having to receive error codes or otherwise fail to receive the requested resource.

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