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

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72 points networked | 1 comments | 15 Nov 24 08:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | 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. crest ◴[20 Nov 24 20:30 UTC] No.42197799[source]▶
A non-trivial application should not add a dependency for just exponential backoff + proportional jitter, an easy to use wrapper to put around a quick script is a good idea that and the lack of such a "basic" defensive programming technique has made untold initially small problems a lot worse by creating a thundering herd.