Configuring Retry Policy

What is a retry strategy?

In software development, a retry strategy refers to a systematic approach for handling errors or failures that may occur during the execution of a specific operation, such as making network requests, accessing databases, or interacting with external services. The primary goal of a retry strategy is to improve the robustness and reliability of the software by gracefully recovering from transient errors or temporary issues without manual intervention.

Retry strategies involve automatically retrying the failed operation a certain number of times or until a predefined condition is met. They are commonly used in distributed systems, cloud computing, and network communication to deal with situations where failures are expected to be temporary and may be resolved by retrying the operation.

Common scenarios where retry strategies are useful include:

• Network communications: API calls or HTTP requests in case of temporary network issues.

• Database operations: Database queries or transactions if the database is temporarily unavailable. ...