For the chat service I was talking about before, the idea was that the javascript for the main page would ping the chat server and if it didn't respond, the chat ui wouldn't be shown. With services, I can have graceful degradations for each service at multiple levels. For instance, if the chat service was way over quota I can simply have it return 'empty' values that say no one is online or something like that, or even simply take it offline.
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