April 11, 2021 · 4 min read
Generic error messages suck. As a user, we encounter them all the time. “An error occurred, please try again later“. Often just to find out the problem wasn't some server outage, but something on our side. A typo in our email - and the server couldn't send that verification email, resulting in a 500 internal server error. Here's a simple but effective way to API error design.
January 17, 2021 · 1 min read
You've heard of the terms fault, error, and failure. And as software developers, we use them every day. But what do they mean? One popular definition is...