Software Engineering

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Interfaces are powerful.

The dead letter queue (DLQ) pattern is commonly used to increase the resiliency of services that process data, allowing them to recover from incidents that prevent the processing or writing of that data without losing that data.

We recently had an incident with our data pipeline, resulting in data being lost on route to our data platform.

Postmortems are a well established process followed in the aftermath of an incident.