# Fail Fast or Fall Back

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

Record: `lexicon:fail-fast-or-fall-back`
Kind: technique
Layer: [Correctness Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/correctness-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-fail-fast-or-fall-back

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Bounded Queue](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/bounded-queue.md) and before [Ad-Hoc Design](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/ad-hoc-design.md).

## Category

- [Error Handling / Resilience](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/error-handling-resilience.md)

## Refactors

- [Timeout Omission](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/timeout-omission.md)
- [Log-as-Control-Flow](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/log-as-control-flow.md)
- [Fail Fast](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/fail-fast.md)
- [Fail Safe](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/fail-safe.md)

## Linked from

- [Anti-patterns](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-anti-patterns.md)
- [Error Handling / Resilience](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-error-handling-resilience.md)