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What we have had to work out to build this, written down. Mostly about retries, and about the failures that never raise anything.
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2026-08-06
Engineering
6 minA retry is a second delivery
Exponential backoff is the easy half. The hard half is that every wait you add is another chance for the same job to run twice.
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2026-07-29
Operations
5 minThe failure that never pages you
Every alert you own fires on something going wrong. The expensive outages are the ones where nothing goes wrong, because nothing happens at all.