Comment by throwaway314155
14 days ago
> basically never want exponential backoff.
> [unless] due to a rate limit
Pretty common use-case for automatic retries...
14 days ago
> basically never want exponential backoff.
> [unless] due to a rate limit
Pretty common use-case for automatic retries...
That's fine!
If it's for a rate limit, sure, use exponential backoff, and put a known upper bound on how long you'll back off for.
But don't make your application wait for 50 minutes to come back up just because the database was down for 25 minutes. That's the kind of thing I am protesting here.