· 3 days ago· Dev.to
Go's HTTP Retry Mechanism: A Delicate Balance of Reliability and Performance
When you call an external API, things go fine until they don't. A network blip, a server restart, a rate limit. So you add a retry, and most of the time it helps. The problem is that the obvious retry, the one we all write first, can quietly make things worse: it can resend a payment twice, or keep
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