Lexicon

Unsafe Default Continuation

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: lexicon:unsafe-default-continuation

Canonical: Lexicon

Continuing in an unsafe default state after a failure instead of stopping in a safe one.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Unbounded Retry and before Blast-Radius Reduction.

Category

  • Error Handling / Resilience

Negated by

  • Fail Safe

Violates

  • Fail Safe

Linked from

  • Error Handling / Resilience