Handling outages gracefully

Lately, my Spectrum internet has been on the fritz. I really can't tell why either. It will just cut out and cut back in again. I've seen this occurring almost like clockwork when I was working from home, and expect to see more of it in the upcoming future, as I'll be working from home again. It does have me thinking though about how we as developers have to handle the rare case that the user can't connect.
Here are some ideas on what we can do as developers to help in the event that something goes down....

1. Service Workers. Writing progressive web apps, the service worker has been both a blessing and a nightmare. If configured improperly, expect none of your JS files to ever be upgraded or it to do nothing for you. That said, the ideal in at least my world right now is to use the Service worker to cache an instance of my Javascript, but always try for the latest. More info about service workers can be found here.
2. Data caching. This can be client or server-side. Most data needs to come from somewhere. Many times it's either a SQL server or Web API. I am a huge fan of implementing caches on frequently called data. Especially on calls that will always return the same data. Implementing caches not only reduces the potential of a bad user experience in the event of a network outage but in many cases, can speed up the response time of your site.
3. Use a CDN. CDN's are like giant global internet caches. They help with response time by serving up data closer to the user and behave like a bit internet cache. As well many of them cost nothing or little to use. There can be downsides, like if a CDN acts up, but all in all, the pros to using one outweigh the cons.
4. Have a backup box. In the event of an outage, either have a fallback / secondary box to hit, or use a service like a load balencer if one machine acts up. In the case of my chatbot, if my box goes down, the code SHOULD fall back to Heroku (that said, there may be a bug or two in my logic on that... something I need to investigate)
5. Investigate based on your platform. Going to last year's virtual Mongo DB conference, I found they were putting a lot of time and effort into "local Mode", where in the event you can't connect to the DB, it keeps it local until you can. I'm sure other platforms either have their own or similar concepts you can use to help with this.

I'm keeping this week's post a bit light, with the holiday going on (Happy Easter).Last note... Keep the mindset that while we live in a connected world, there are still dead zones. Let me know what you think, or if you have any additional recommendations on the topic