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Re:Twelve Years of Go by merb on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @06:52PM (#29325184)
> At high scale

so basically you mean that this only applies to like 0.001% of all websites/apps.

thus it's stupid to do it. I mean even than you would have an error that you need to bubble up or circuit break it somwhere but probably not at this layer.

also KISS and MVP, never ever overcomplicate something when you do not know anything yet, so most people don't need to built for scale at day 1 and it also is stupid to do it.

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Re:Twelve Years of Go by Karrot_Kream on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @03:55AM (#29470360)
You can get off-the-shelf libraries that do this for you with zero-effort sane defaults. Most of them let you tweak the settings. I'm talking about Python's `requests` and Rust's `reqwest` here btw, two of the most popular HTTP client libraries out there. Python's `urlopen3`, which `requests` uses, exposes options for backoff strategies. `aiohttp` has a lot of these parameters as well. Unfortunately Rust's equivalent, `hyper`, isn't nearly as ergonomic/easy to use.
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