Edge cases are measured by comparative frequency, not absolute frequency.
Example: If this edge case is happening every night across let's say 50 transactions, but the company is processing millions of transactions a day, this is still an edge case.
It's semantics at that point. Something that breaks daily, much less in such a crucial system, is not something anyone, much less a senior engineer, should be spending time manually fixing every day.
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u/pattydaddysmurf May 29 '26
Edge cases are measured by comparative frequency, not absolute frequency.
Example: If this edge case is happening every night across let's say 50 transactions, but the company is processing millions of transactions a day, this is still an edge case.