Sure. You wouldn't want a webserver to crash if someone sends a malformed request. I'd have to think long and hard about each individual case of running in deg

Sure. You wouldn't want a webserver to crash if someone sends a malformed request. I'd have to think long and hard about each individual case of running in degraded mode though. Sometimes that's appropriate: an OS kernel should keep going if someone unplugs a keyboard. Other times it's not: it may be better for a database to fail than to return the wrong set of rows because of a storage error.