How I Built an Overengineered Serverless Uptime Checker

Recently I was working on a project where we were working with a third party in order to process different Office files. This third-party had both a production tenant as well as a development tenant as can be common with these types of integrations. The development tenant was much less stable than the production tenant and, at least it felt like, it would go down quite often. At this point it was just a gut feel from our interactions on and off with the service so we wanted to quantify it. As we considered ways we could check whether the service was down or not…