On: How to Deploy Software

[duggan]

There is, sort of. If you're hosting on Linux, you can use iptables to artificially delay responses.

That and some other methods are described in a post on the Yelp engineering blog[1].

1: http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2015/04/true-zero-downtime-h...

[sciurus → duggan]

I don't think that's quite what raziel2p wants. Won't that still allow the web server to receive and process the request, but just delay it's response?