Backend

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• 0052026.08.29

  The interface lied, so the catch never fired

  One missing file took the whole API down, past five correctly written try/catch blocks, because the driver could not fail where they were looking.

  4 min·Backend·Failure modes

• 0022026.07.25

  Seven predicates for one question

  Four screens showed an aircraft's status and three of them were wrong. The fix was not to pick the best of the seven definitions.

  Hardening a safety-critical system·5 min·System design·Backend

• 0012026.07.25

  The defect owns the finding

  A pilot who found a fault mid-inspection could abandon the checklist or lie. Fixing that meant resisting the obvious second blocker.

  Hardening a safety-critical system·4 min·System design·Backend