The Retry Pattern and Retry Storm Anti-pattern
When developing cloud applications, we’ll be interacting with remote services that can suffer from transient faults. Our applications need to be able to handle transient failures when trying to connect to remote services, and retry a failed operation to improve the stability of your applications. This is where the Retry pattern comes into play. N.B Transient faults are faults that include the momentary loss of network connectivity to components and services, the temporary unavailability of a service, and timeouts that occur when a service is busy. ...