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Comment by mrkeen

I don't think I can recall a time where I routed-around-the-damage on the basis of a particular typed exception.

As soon as you consider retrying a network failure, you immediately need to start thinking about distributed systems failures, idempotency, and all that good stuff.

As soon as you start thinking about the above, it becomes immediately obvious that low-level calls should not be able to decide to re-run themselves.

parent mrkeen 1 month ago

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