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3 Bugs That Made a Reliability System Lie About Success
A developer building HookSafe, a webhook reliability layer, made three bugs that all masked failures as successes. Bug 1 swallowed a connection error by returning nil instead of the error. Bug 2 logged success even when a database update failed due to a typo. Bug 3 caused a worker to loop infinitely because a log message misled debugging.
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The post is a cautionary tale about how reliability systems can be undermined by subtle coding mistakes that hide failures, not just cause them.
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Três bugs que cometi construindo um sistema de confiabilidade (e os três fingiram que deu tudo certo) →
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