Learning Concurrency in Kotlin

Resiliency and stability

This was already mentioned as a bullet point in the section More Advice on Tests, but it's important enough for me to decide to include it as its own section—even if it's a small one.

Depending on the nature of the application that you are writing, it may be acceptable—maybe even expected—that your application will crash if certain conditions aren't met. In other scenarios, like for mobile apps, it's often expected that exceptions will be handled and the application will recover without side effects.

Resiliency is something that needs to be taken into account at the very start of the project. As we saw in previous chapters, you can easily set exception handlers for coroutines, and it doesn't require much work to validate ...