[buzzkillington]

A good rule of thumb is to abstract inherent complexity and not incidental complexity.

Loggers are examples of incidental complexity. There is nothing fundamental about sending the warning by email vs slack vs irc. The way to deal with this is not to keep adding more and more options, because you end up with combinatorial growth in the number of interactions, it's to make it company policy that you only use email and discipline anyone who doesn't.

[pdonis]

> There is nothing fundamental about sending the warning by email vs slack vs irc.

I agree with this but I would put it somewhat differently. To me, notifications are a separate service, and whatever options there are for notification should be orthogonal to whatever is doing the notifying. If company A's policy is that notifications only go by email, nothing else, while company B has email, slack, and irc, that's for their respective notification services to worry about, not for each individual application that is using the notification service. To the application, it should be send_notification(content, recipient) and that's it.