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Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs)

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72 points networked | 2 comments | 15 Nov 24 08:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.43s | source
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greatgib ◴[20 Nov 24 12:37 UTC] No.42193395[source]▶
Typically the kind of library that is useless and root cause of the dependency hell we are now living in.

That kind of simple things should be a basic inside once program or at worse a simple snipper copied from stack overflow or anything like that

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1. yoavm ◴[20 Nov 24 12:52 UTC] No.42193503[source]▶
It does not seem to be a library at all, so very little to do with dependency hell. It's something you prepend to your commands if you want them to retry until they succeed. Seems pretty useful to me.
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2. bobnamob ◴[20 Nov 24 13:49 UTC] No.42193912[source]▶
Also, retries are more nuanced than most people expect, see [1][2]. Getting them right is exactly something I’d appreciate in a library and not something I’d want to reimplement per project/service.

[1] https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/02/28/retries.html

[2] https://medium.com/yandex/good-retry-bad-retry-an-incident-s...