I’ve seen this exact problem many times. Counting TCP, the current system I’m working has 5 different layers of retries. TCP, the service mesh, the company wid

I’ve seen this exact problem many times. Counting TCP, the current system I’m working has 5 different layers of retries. TCP, the service mesh, the company wide http client, application retries, and a database backed queueing library that everyone uses. Imagine what happens when a service is flaky and each one of those layers retries 3-5 times.