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by nitwit005 1322 days ago
The clients and network have state. If you kill every service, and set everything up from scratch, your users are probably seeing an error message. Their connections all died and the retries failed while you were spinning up the new version of things.
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Right, which is why you set up the new versions of the service _first_ and cutover to them before tearing down.