Recall when to use timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, and outlier handling.
Recall What does a timeout control? How long the caller waits before giving up. Use it to protect the caller latency budget and trigger fallback. When is a retry appropriate? When the operation is safe to repeat and the failure is likely transient. Retries need a timeout and a retry-volume limit so they do not amplify load. Compare Timeout versus circuit breaker Use both when the caller needs a hard budget and the upstream needs a pressure cap. Objection Just add retries; the user will never see the error. A teammate proposes retries during an upstream brownout. Your line Retries…
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