https://vacua.dev/tags/failure-handling/Recent content in Failure-Handling on Brian FaustHugoen-USMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://vacua.dev/thoughts/a-third-party-api-is-an-unreliable-collaborator/Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://vacua.dev/thoughts/a-third-party-api-is-an-unreliable-collaborator/<p>A scheduled import begins by listing remote orders. The list request returns a 502 HTML page, so there are no trustworthy item identifiers to process.</p> <p>On another run the list succeeds. One order then returns a 504 while its details are being loaded. The remaining orders are still independent and can continue.</p> <p>These failures share a provider, but not a recovery boundary. Treating both as “the API is down” either discards useful work or pretends to know more than the response established.</p>