Grokking Microservices Design Patterns
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The Retry Pattern: A Solution to Unreliable External Resources
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The Retry Pattern addresses transient failures by attempting the operation again, giving the system a second (or third, etc.) chance to succeed. The core idea is simple: if an operation fails due to a temporary issue, wait a short period and try it again, on the assumption that the issue may have been resolved in the interim. Many distributed systems fail in partial ways – a subset of requests fail while others succeed – or suffer short-lived outages. In fact, “often, trying the same request again causes the request to succeed

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