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		Marazan 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Servic... For me the most catastrophic situations happen when a fatal error is treated as a non-fatal error and suddenly instead of the system crashing the system starts promulgating nulls everywhere and into storage.

thfuran 5 months ago [–]

And then someone decides to "fix it" by adding a null check and things really go off the rails.

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