%% date:: [[2023-12-04]] parent:: %% # [[Ways to fail gracefully]] ## Slow down load I got this error message on [[2023-12-03]], a few weeks before Christmas, from Amazon: ![[amazon-captcha-on-server-busy.png]] While still an admission of failure, I thought that instituting a [[Captcha]] was an interesting way of slowing down the traffic and spreading it out over a larger amount of time in the hopes of helping the system recover.