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  1. Advanced Ruby: The chainable request pattern

    Make your transactional web requests more maintainable with The Chainable Request Pattern.

    Thiago Araújo Silva
    May 6, 2024
    • Ruby
    • Error Handling
    • API
    • Distributed Systems
    • Fault Tolerance
    • Rails
  2. Handling external API errors: A transactional approach

    Clarifying a few possible ways to implement transactional workflows when working with external APIs.

    Thiago Araújo Silva
    January 23, 2024
    • Error Handling
    • API
    • Distributed Systems
    • Fault Tolerance
    • PostgreSQL
  3. Error Messages Are Our Friends

    This article is about how to understand and embrace error messages as tools to help us find issues in our code.

    Crystal Williams-Brown
    April 3, 2023
    • Error Handling
    • Error
    • Debugging
    • Development
  4. Handling external API errors: A resumable approach

    Clarifying a few possible ways to implement resumable workflows when working with external APIs.

    Thiago Araújo Silva
    January 24, 2023
    • Error Handling
    • API
    • Distributed Systems
    • PostgreSQL
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