Glossary

The words, without the shrug

Every term the courses use, defined in one line and then in a paragraph. Written to be read out of order.

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Retry

Infrastructure

Trying again after a failure.

Reasonable for 5xx errors and network failures, pointless for 4xx. Must be paired with increasing delays and with idempotency, or it turns a lost response into a duplicate action.