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3 pieces filed under “error-handling”.
Engineering · 2 June 2026 · 9 min
Errors are design material: engineering graceful failure
Failures are part of the product, not exceptions to it. Typed errors, retry policies, circuit breakers and writing the failure copy in the same sprint as the happy path.
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Engineering · 14 Apr 2026 · 8 minRate limits are a UX surface, not just middleware
Rate limiting starts in middleware but ends in the interface. Retry-After contracts, queue positions, backpressure UX and the copy that keeps users calm.
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Engineering · 9 Feb 2026 · 8 minError boundaries: designing UI that fails gracefully
Error boundaries are a product decision, not a try/catch. Granularity, fallbacks that save user work, retry semantics and reporting that actually gets read.
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