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A facade in front of a 12-year-old monolith routes 3 of about 20 capabilities to new services, matched by URL prefix. A new mobile build starts calling an endpoint nobody listed in the facade's configuration. What happens, and what should the facade's behaviour for an unmatched route be?

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A facade in front of a 12-year-old monolith routes 3 of about 20 capabilities to new services, matched by URL prefix. A new mobile build starts calling an endpoint nobody listed in the facade's configuration. What happens, and what should the facade's behaviour for an unmatched route be?