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You can call it many things: fault-tolerant, bulletproof, robust. However you describe it, an application that doesn't shatter when things go wrong is a joy to use. These kinds of applications behave well not through luck or coding practices but because an extensive error-handling strategy was devised and applied. This chapter introduces the kinds of errors that can occur and general strategies for handling them.