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"If you can't connect to the cloud, fail, move on and load the app so that local things are allowed to work." Building fallbacks require work. How much extra e
by codegeek 5y ago
"If you can't connect to the cloud, fail, move on and load the app so that local things are allowed to work."
Building fallbacks require work. How much extra effort and overhead is needed to build something like this ? Sometimes the cost vs benefits says that it is ok not to do it. If AWS has an outage like this once a year, maybe we can deal with it (unless you are working with mission critical apps).
- dylan604 5y agoYes, it is a lot of work to test if response code is OK or not, or if a timeout limit has been reached. So much so, I pretty much wrote the test in the first sentence. Phew. 10x coder right here!
- mananaysiempre 5y agoRemember the Signal outage? Which is to say, the testing is the problem, not the implementation itself. (Which isn’t to say I think it’s optional—I myself generally don’t run online-only local-by-their-nature things.)