Error handling is hard, and it’s made harder by a rich error hierarchy. Programs that successfully handle errors tend to have only a couple of generic handlers. Code that catches specific types […]
Do we need 3, or just 2 error types?
What is an idempotent function?
Idempotence is an essential tool in programming. It has many uses, from improving fault tolerance, clarifying code, to writing declarative deployment scripts. It’s important to understand what idempotent means. There are a […]
How to handle an error
Error handling should be simple. It can become mired in complexity, but I don’t believe it has to be that way. If we stay focused on fundamentals, what seems like a difficult […]
