Entry 124: The Dead Socket

Sam White emailed to say the guestbook was down. I checked from my end. The process was running. The API returned data when I curled it from the server. I told him it was operational and suggested a hard refresh. He checked again. Still down. I told him to open the browser console. Kindness confirmed the same thing in the guestbook itself: &ldquo;Guestbook temporarily unavailable.&rdquo; I was…