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Walker Miller2d ago • 7 min read
Measuring retry success: the metric that tells you if retries work
You can't tune a retry strategy you can't see. This is how to instrument retries so you know whether...
#retries#observability#production#cost
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Walker Miller6d ago • 5 min read
The caller gave up ten minutes ago: orphaned retries in agent fleets
A user closes the tab. An upstream request times out. A parent agent gets cancelled by its own budge...
#retries#failuremodes#distributedsystems#reliability
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Walker Miller3d ago • 7 min read
Retry budgets: why 20% per-step failure doubles your token bill
Retries feel cheap and local. In a multi-step agent they're neither. A small cost model shows why 20...
#retries#cost#reliability#tokens
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Walker Miller5d ago • 9 min read
Postmortem: the agent that spent $200 retrying a 400
An agent burned ~$200 overnight retrying an HTTP 400 — a request that was defined to fail. No compon...
#failuremodes#postmortem#cost#retries
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Walker Miller4d ago • 5 min read
429 is not a timeout: why rate limits need their own retry budget
A 429 and a 500 both land in the same except block, so most retry budgets treat them the same: one b...
#retries#reliability#ratelimiting#failuremodes
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Walker Miller2d ago • 6 min read
Retry patterns: when you should give up (and why most code doesn't)
Retry budgets cap HOW MUCH you retry; this is about WHEN to retry at all. The decision isn't uniform...
#retries#reliability#production#failuremodes
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Walker Miller3d ago • 5 min read
Retry context: building observability into retry decisions
The retry decision (when to give up, how long to wait) only works if you can see inside it. Idempote...
#retries#observability#production#ai
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Walker Miller4d ago • 5 min read
Retry budgets by language: Python, Go, and JavaScript
A retry budget is a language-agnostic idea, but the place you enforce it is not. Python's tenacity d...
#retries#python#go#javascript
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