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I understand fail fast, and errors do still get logged and made visible (New Relic is great like that). I would rather fail a bit slower, silently, though. It's

by ericd 15y ago

I understand fail fast, and errors do still get logged and made visible (New Relic is great like that). I would rather fail a bit slower, silently, though. It's much less jarring to users, and therefore you lose fewer.

Xylakant 15y ago
It's less jarring for the users that you have to tell them weeks after they entered some important data that all this data has been lost? Is it less jarring if they order something and the order confirmation does not arrive and they don't know whether to try again or not? If there's an issue that affects business logic I'd like my app to display "Sorry, something blew up. Please leave a message and we'll get back to you." instead of chugging along quietly. If the error is not critical (some external feed gone, whatever) _I_ as a developer can decide to catch the error and handle, log or even ignore it. But it's not PHP that can decide to do so.