Lexicon

Fail Fast or Fall Back

Kind: technique

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: lexicon:fail-fast-or-fall-back

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for deciding per failure whether to stop with an error at once or to continue on a declared fallback.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Bounded Queue and before Ad-Hoc Design.

Category

  • Error Handling / Resilience

Refactors

  • Timeout Omission
  • Log-as-Control-Flow
  • Fail Fast
  • Fail Safe

Linked from

  • Anti-patterns
  • Error Handling / Resilience