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Re:Async Queue – One of My Favorite Programming Interviews (... by MontyCarloHall on Sunday July 06, 2025 @05:52PM (#44484427)
Exactly. If I were asked this question during an interview, the first thing I'd say is "why should the client bother with anything more complex than jittered exponential backoff?"
Re:Async Queue – One of My Favorite Programming Interviews (... by efitz on Monday July 07, 2025 @04:16AM (#44487902)
From a security perspective, it’s axiomatic that you can’t make a client behave in any particular way; we just assume the client is hostile.
Re:Async Queue – One of My Favorite Programming Interviews (... by diesal11 on Monday July 07, 2025 @05:58AM (#44488564)
I've dealt with backends that refresh a CSRF token on each valid request and return it in the response as a cookie. In those cases a solution like this may be needed. Not optimal but, we don't always have control over the backends we use, especially then they're provided by a third party.