We were cruising along on Cyber Monday afternoon when I noticed that the FedEx Rate API was down, which is kind of important since we use it to pull shipping rates during checkout. No big deal I thought, it will default to the backup system, which was a rate table in our database. FedEx has scheduled downtime regularly and this backup has always worked well. Just to be certain though, I started investigating and realized that since this “downtime” wasn’t scheduled, we weren’t receiving a… Continue reading