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0 pointsglimow3y ago0 comments

We used Algolia free tier for the search but all the credits were consumed :') I take this as a learning for our next side project

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I try to impress upon my colleagues that error handling is the hallmark of good engineering, because the happy path is only one possible outcome

Had the search said "error while searching: 403" (or whatever) versus "no results" there would have been far fewer complaints in this thread

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0 pointsglimow3y ago0 comments

We used Algolia free tier for the search but all the credits were consumed :') I take this as a learning for our next side project

I try to impress upon my colleagues that error handling is the hallmark of good engineering, because the happy path is only one possible outcome

Had the search said "error while searching: 403" (or whatever) versus "no results" there would have been far fewer complaints in this thread

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse