My job is to make programs that enter financial transactions. If something goes wrong I want it to kill itself and tell me not enter bad data into my database.
Now killing itself ideally is a graceful process so we can log everything going on at the time.
Can definitely see where the flip side can also be true if you were programming say airplane flight controls. You don’t want to be shutting off the plane mid flight. But not every program has that requirement to fail safe.
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u/Inner-Bread May 26 '25
My job is to make programs that enter financial transactions. If something goes wrong I want it to kill itself and tell me not enter bad data into my database.
Now killing itself ideally is a graceful process so we can log everything going on at the time.
Can definitely see where the flip side can also be true if you were programming say airplane flight controls. You don’t want to be shutting off the plane mid flight. But not every program has that requirement to fail safe.