[dnautics]

If it's 10^9 requests, then obviously they are low-cost processes in the first place, so you're better off just re-doing the job that failed.

[pilif]

That's what I mean. Yes.

But when the caller missed checking some error code, then nothing won't notice it has failed and now you have corrupt data to deal with. That's why I think blowing up at the time when something goes wrong is so valuable.