Fantastic breakdown of explicit error handling! The distinction between domain errors and infrastructure errors is something I wish more teams understood early on. I've seen way too many production bugs traced back to business validations getting caught in the same try-catch as database timeouts. Separating them like thisgives you way more control over retry logic and user-facing messags, which matters when things inevitably break at 2am.
Thanks! That’s the exact kind of production scenario that motivated this post. Once domain errors are modeled explicitly and kept out of infrastructure handling, a lot of second-order decisions suddenly become clear; what’s retryable, what’s observable, and what’s safe to expose.
Fantastic breakdown of explicit error handling! The distinction between domain errors and infrastructure errors is something I wish more teams understood early on. I've seen way too many production bugs traced back to business validations getting caught in the same try-catch as database timeouts. Separating them like thisgives you way more control over retry logic and user-facing messags, which matters when things inevitably break at 2am.
Thanks! That’s the exact kind of production scenario that motivated this post. Once domain errors are modeled explicitly and kept out of infrastructure handling, a lot of second-order decisions suddenly become clear; what’s retryable, what’s observable, and what’s safe to expose.