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isn't that a bomb with a pair of scissors to cut the fuse that could break down under certain conditions? I feel like they could also hide an issue that might
by Quarrelsome 1mo ago
isn't that a bomb with a pair of scissors to cut the fuse that could break down under certain conditions?
I feel like they could also hide an issue that might get fixed if there were no retries. Is it slow or is our resource sporadically offline?
- stingraycharles 1mo agoGoogle “thundering herd” and you’ll understand why uncontrolled retries can be / are bad.
- inigyou 1mo agoQuarrelsome is suggesting you should have no retries, not unlimited.
- stingraycharles 1mo agoYes I’m aware, and they’re probably suggesting that something on a higher level should instead retry, and I’m arguing that you need to coordinate the retry mechanisms and behavior between differently layers of your stack.
- MeetingsBrowser 1mo agoExponential back off retries could hide a real issue, but I would estimate something like 99.99999999% of network retries are resolved within the first 2 attempts. Not using retries is optimizing for the astronomically rare case, which is better mitigated by other means