Re:Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded p...
by akiselev on Monday October 05, 2020 @02:29PM
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> I didn’t know it was that controversial. I feel like that article is making a bit of strawman argument from the get go by talking about 1-3% failure rate from the backend. If I had a system that flaky, I’d be taking a good hard look at myself before blaming anything on my optimistic UI :-)
It's not a 1-3% failure rate for the backend, it's a 0.01-0.1% failure rate for each request between dozens of microservices each with their own bespoke error handling, each owned by a team with more political clout than the frontend guys/gals who keep reporting Sentry errors due to "UnknownNetworkError" or some other such nonsense, all wrapped in some spaghetti code frontend thats written like the whole thing is running locally.
It's not a 1-3% failure rate for the backend, it's a 0.01-0.1% failure rate for each request between dozens of microservices each with their own bespoke error handling, each owned by a team with more political clout than the frontend guys/gals who keep reporting Sentry errors due to "UnknownNetworkError" or some other such nonsense, all wrapped in some spaghetti code frontend thats written like the whole thing is running locally.