Re:Some items from my “reliability list”
by xorcist on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:09PM
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Using HTTP for RPC lends itself to this sort of endless discussion. Authorization is even worse.
You could argue either way. What's important is being consistent, at the very least throughout an API but preferably throughout the whole organization.
(Personally I'd probably lean towards a 40x of some kind, just make sure it doesn't clash with something that you care about.)
Along the same lines, and arguably more important, is how to log the operations where a transaction completed successfully but with a negative answer. If you log expected negatives as errors you can get error blindness.
You could argue either way. What's important is being consistent, at the very least throughout an API but preferably throughout the whole organization.
(Personally I'd probably lean towards a 40x of some kind, just make sure it doesn't clash with something that you care about.)
Along the same lines, and arguably more important, is how to log the operations where a transaction completed successfully but with a negative answer. If you log expected negatives as errors you can get error blindness.