I Built a Production-Grade Microservice That Does Absolutely Nothing

This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge: Silly Software What I Built Teapot-as-a-Service (TaaS) — a Spring Boot microservice whose sole purpose in life is to refuse your coffee brewing requests by returning HTTP 418 I'm a teapot. Every. Single. Time. It's built with the same architectural rigor you'd use for a payment processing system at a Fortune 500 company. Except instead of processing payments, it processes existential crises about being a teapot. Demo singhvishalkr / teapot-as-a-service Production-grade, cloud-native, enterprise teapot infrastructure. RFC 2324 compliant. Zero business value. DEV April Fools 2026. Teapot-as-a-Service (TaaS) ☕→🫖→418 Production-grade, cloud-native, enterprise teapot infrastructure. RFC 2324 compliant. Zero business value. Maximum over-engineering. What is this? A Spring Boot microservice whose sole purpose is to refuse coffee brewing requests by returning HTTP 418 I'm a teapot. Built with the same architectural rigor you'd use for a