Things break. The question is not whether your app will hit an error, it is how gracefully it recovers. Here is how I think about error handling across the frontend, backend, and queue consumers, with real patterns from the apps I run.
Where should I validate? Everywhere, and for different reasons
Validation is one of those topics that feels boring until something goes wrong in production. Here is how I think about validation across the stack, with real examples from the apps I run.