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Getting good at error handling, queue sizing and writing relevant logs requires some repeated exposure to real world pear-shaped events.

Failing early and visible is always good, especially before a program have been taken into production. When things have stabilized for a while, recoverable errors can be ignored, and just logged.

It's also important to take the opportunity to improve the error handling and logging first, before fixing the actual problem. Errors are hard to fake "right" so getting a good reproducible error is an opportunity.




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