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Failure Counter Fails First
Bugs Post #1778 · source on Telegram

Failure Counter Fails First

Description

A dark-mode Twitter screenshot shows a post by "Holly Graceful" with handle "@HollyGraceful". The tweet reads, "How's your day going? I added an incremental counter to my program to count failures, and misspelled failures, causing a failure." The footer shows "22:17 · 29 Jun 20 · Twitter for iPhone". The joke is a self-referential bug: observability code intended to count failures introduces a new failure because of a spelling mistake, a painfully familiar class of tiny defects in instrumentation and error handling.

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Bugs Debugging Troubleshooting Observability Monitoring CodeQuality Testing

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SoftwareBugs CodingMistakes RuntimeErrors ErrorHandling Observability Monitoring VariableNaming CodeQuality DeveloperSelfDeprecation DeveloperHumor

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The first metric every monitoring system emits is usually `monitoring_system_created_its_own_incident_total`.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The first metric every monitoring system emits is usually `monitoring_system_created_its_own_incident_total`.

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