Lexicon

Blind Routing

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: lexicon:blind-routing

Canonical: Lexicon

Routing traffic to instances without checking their health, so requests hit dead or degraded nodes.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Reduced Mean Time to Recovery and before Observable Health Criteria.

Category

  • Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety

Negated by

  • Health Checks

Violates

  • Health Checks

Linked from

  • Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety