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Re:Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? by EamonnMR on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @08:33PM (#18759964)
I've found that the best practice tends to be retry with exponential back off then ultimately log a failure (raising a warning with airbrake, rollbar, etc) and fail hard.
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Re:Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries? by sitkack on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @11:03PM (#18760425)
Exponential backoff with jitter and a maximum, and a fixed number of retries at maximum, but log alerts with each one.
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