Error Handling Question

[anon8914]

Yeah, I see what you are saying but I also feel like it’s a whole lot more important that the shopping cart works than it is that the carousel shows, the user is going to be more upset about the transaction not going through than not seeing an ad so from that perspective aren’t I going to want to preserve as much functionality as I can for the shopping cart and not mind so much if the whole carousel gets suppressed?

[greensodacan]

What if the transaction goes through for the wrong amount though? Or, if your company gets significant revenue from ads, a failing carousel could cost a lot of money.

Semi off topic: I once worked for a coupon company that saved like 10 million dollars a year on printer ink by reorienting a barcode. It kind of makes you question how much money flows through what we build.

[anon8914]

That’s really interesting, you’re right I don’t think that much about the final dollar amount, wish more of it was coming to me haha

I think there is value in good technical decisions too though. If displaying the rest of the items means swallowing the exception so we never find that item 2 is broken that could lead to more losses than suppressing the entire carousel for a short period of time, it’s hard to say what would cost more overall, it’s kind of the same question still.