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Server Readiness Verification Before Dependent Steps
Verify a freshly started server is ready before running tests or dependent steps against it: poll a health endpoint or watch for a startup-complete log signal instead of sleeping on a fixed timer.
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$ curl -fsS http://localhost:8080/healthz
$ until curl -fsS http://localhost:8080/healthz; do sleep 1; done
$ journalctl -u myservice -f | grep -m1 'startup complete'
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Readiness Gates: Poll the Health Endpoint, Do Not Sleep Blind
Server Readiness Verification Before Dependent Steps# Readiness Gates: Health Endpoints and Log Signals Over Blind Sleeps When a server starts in the background, the process being alive is not the same as the server being ready to serve traffic. Sockets bind early, but workers, migrations, and warmup handlers often finish later. Running tests or dep
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