Each component should handle its own failures
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each piece of the puzzle needs to be completely independent in eponymous where it can handle its own failures.
Episode 43: What are they building? Oh yeah that question and many more shall be answered (approx., from transcript intro) 00:48:26 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
After Podping's Hive writer silently dropped URLs, some wanted it to report write failures back to the front end. Dave prefers each piece to be completely independent and handle its own failures. An 'okay' should just mean 'I received it', and failures downstream are fought with persistence and retries.
Not in the audio. 'in eponymous' is the transcript's rendering of 'and autonomous'.