Additional Notes
Which failures justify backoff retries?
Track: Java
Topic: Networking
Focus: Timeouts and Retries
Java: Timeouts and Retries
Answer
Timeouts, `429`, and `503`-style transient failures.
Retries are for cases where time might change the outcome. They make sense for rate limits or temporary outages, not for bad input that will remain bad on the next attempt.
Retries are for cases where time might change the outcome. They make sense for rate limits or temporary outages, not for bad input that will remain bad on the next attempt.
Topics: Java Networking Timeouts and Retries