retry-strategies

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides robust patterns for handling temporary failures in external API calls, preventing cascading failures and improving system availability. It solves the critical problem of unreliable distributed systems by implementing intelligent retry mechanisms and circuit breakers.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Exponential Backoff: Implements a retry strategy that exponentially increases wait times between retries, reducing load on failing services.
• Circuit Breaker: Prevents continuous requests to a failing service, allowing it to recover and protecting your system from cascading failures.
• Bulkhead Pattern: Isolates resources to prevent a failure in one service from impacting others, enhancing overall system stability.
• Timeout Management: Guides on setting appropriate connection, read, and total timeouts to prevent resource exhaustion.
• Use Case: When integrating with a third-party payment gateway that occasionally experiences intermittent outages, use this skill to implement an Exponential Backoff retry strategy with a Circuit Breaker. This ensures your application automatically attempts to reprocess payments, gracefully handles prolonged outages, and prevents your system from being overwhelmed by retries.

Quick Start

Use the retry-strategies skill to design a retry policy for an external API call that might experience temporary network issues. Include Exponential Backoff with jitter and a maximum of 5 retries. Suggest a Circuit Breaker configuration to prevent cascading failures.