Browntime: when the API you're relying on isn't dead, per se, but it's failing sporadically or has unpredictably long response times.
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I hadn't heard of it before, but it makes perfect sense given the meaning of 'brownout'

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Also, adding to the definition; API yielding undocumented responses because it wasn't architected for or tested against failure
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maybe you mean brownout?
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I understood what you meant, on reflection due to dealing with power brownouts in Sim City 15 years ago.
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I think the word doesn't connect verbally/linguistically well enough to brownout to bring to mind that analogy.
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