Being defensive with your programming
"Don't be so defensive!" or "Why do you get so defensive?" You may have been asked or told this over the years by a close friend or acquaintance for one reason or another. And, in most cases, this is sound advice. "Relax, don't take things so seriously." But is this the case with application and software development? Absolutely not! You need to be defensive, you need to expect the worst, and you definitely need to make it known!
The concept of "defensive programming" or being "defensive" is not new in the low-code space and certainly not a new concept in software development as a whole. This concept goes back as long as software development has been around. Since the time that the first lines of code were ever written, there have been bugs, there has been "bad data," and developers have had to find ways to handle them when they reared their ugly heads. But even better than...
