When Your WebSocket Lies to You by Saying Nothing

The worst kind of bug is the one your system doesn't report.

A connection is open. No errors. No retries. No alerts. And somewhere in your data, there's a three-hour hole you only find out about later, if you're lucky enough to look at the data at all.

This is the failure mode that logs actively hide from you, because from the transport layer's point of view, nothing went wrong.

The Connection Is Not the Feed