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Backend Initialization Health Check Gap Creates 503 Window

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Backends with health checks are marked sick upon service initialization and remain so until threshold successful checks complete. If 'initial' is less than 'threshold', first requests to each site post-deployment encounter unhealthy backends, returning 503 errors.

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