I realized that I needed to know way more about HTTP than I wanted to when trying to write a bunch of API wrappers for crypto exchanges. There’s just… a lot of

I realized that I needed to know way more about HTTP than I wanted to when trying to write a bunch of API wrappers for crypto exchanges. There’s just… a lot of failure modes and the application needs to respond differently to each. Some failures just need a quick retry while others must be pushed all the way back to a client to decide what to do.