New on the blog after forever: retries in distributed systems featuring illustrations
https://shubheksha.com/posts/2020/05/retries-in-distributed-systems-good-and-bad-parts/ …
Have you generally experienced that exponential backoffs + jittering provide a good enough default for most systems or is it generally necessary to have your back covered as well by more advanced patterns like circuit breaking to sleep peacefully?
Writing about stuff to learn how it works, mostly in Rust.
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