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1. prologic · 1789693479 · focus · HN ↗

   So, effectively if A → B → C → D and D is failing, C may retry D, but B and A are discouraged from retrying the whole chain.

   This is quite slever. I also really like the concept of an "Error Budget", inspired by SRE and SLO(s) no doubt :)

   1. BobbyTables2 · 1789698647 · focus · HN ↗

      I had a former colleague who would put a “retry 10x with sleeps” in each of A, B, C, D.

      None of these were even expected to fail. But the code was buggy as well, so after D being retried 10000 times, it’d eventually give up. Managed to convert a sub-second operation into a half hour affair.

      1. prologic · 1789705870 · focus · HN ↗

         LOL

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