Peter Goetz

Interruption-free service migrations: what you can learn from the cashiers at your local supermarket

Amazon can do it, Google can do it, a lot of others can do it too: interruption-free service migrations.

Correct Error Handling is Hard, Part 2

Following my last post “Correct Error Handling is Hard” I had an interesting discussion on Twitter and got interesting comments in the comments section, which I want to use as an opportunity for another post.

Correct Error Handling is Hard

Just recently, I was reminded how hard correct error handling is, while using the Go client for Google Cloud Platform.

The code I was writing looked like this: