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API Retries and Exponential Back-offs

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Fluent Commerce

Changed on:

5 July 2024

Overview

Exponential backoff is a standard error handling policy for network communications such as the Fluent APIs. 

Exponential backoff involves a client periodically retrying a failed request over an increasing amount of time.

Key points

  • Retries & Exponential Back-offs


For operations that create or update data, a check is recommended before retrying the API call to avoid unnecessary duplication.

This is the recommended approach when dealing with server-side or network-related errors.

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