Code and results: github.com/ashwin-sridhar/silent-failure-harness There's a specific kind of bug I have a hard time explaining to people who haven't hit it. Not a crash. Not a stack trace. A test suite that's green, a system that looks "up," and a business event that just — isn't there. Nobody's system logged an error, because from its point of view nothing happened. That's not a metaphor. That's the literal failure mode. I wanted to know whether the pattern I'd designed around this wa...