Whether you’re the consumer or producer of an API, you’ve no doubt seen that good error handling can make debugging easier. And you may have noticed that error handling works best when everyone speaks the same language and has the same expectations. But what makes for good error handling? And how can we implement it and ensure consistency across our application?
Language used across the high technology ecosystem is dynamic to say the least. Nowhere else can you find a mixture of technical jargon seamlessly intertwined with references from science fiction, mythology, pop-culture, literature, and more. While this makes conversations heard across technical environments colorful and engaging, it also makes communications allegorical and metaphorical— opening them to variable interpretation.
Remember the customer who reported a hard-coded packet per second (PPS) limit in AWS? His use case was a reverse-proxy server to a very active database cluster, complete with heartbeats, keep-alive connections, and a heavy load of queries and traffic. When the network throughput was sustained for an hour or so, the throughput would drop despite increasing demand.
The Java programming language comes with advanced exception handling features that help programmers manage exceptional events. In Java, exceptions are either thrown by the compiler or occur during the execution of the program. Exceptions stop the normal flow of the program, so you need to handle them appropriately.
Magento is the largest open-source eCommerce platform in the world, used by more than 250,000 merchants. While Magento makes setting up a store easier, there is complexity with custom plugins and extensions, and custom site behavior. Sophisticated stores also introduce more opportunity for problems with errors, bugs, performance, and more. A critical production issue might not just cost you a sale, but also customer trust. Errors can affect your business in surprising ways.
Victory Square Technologies and Plug and Play Ventures invested in the Vancouver and California-based startup with participation from key angels in the enterprise and infrastructure space.
