Introduction

Distributed Systems and the Retry Pattern

Modern applications fail in small ways all the time. A network call drops, a server restarts, a database refuses one connection. This chapter covers the pattern that stops those small failures from becoming outages. It is called the Retry Pattern, and it is one of the most used patterns in distributed systems.

Background & Problem Statement

In a distributed microservices architecture, failures are inevitable. Services constantly communicate over networks and depend on numerous components, any of which can malfunction