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How network clients need to participate in fault tolerance
Top tips on best practices here:
Colm’s thread on shuffle sharding reminded me of how important it is that clients participate in fault tolerance, and how frustrated I get when a client library *doesn’t* do this by default in my application. Let’s talk about some best practices!
Bottom line: use Hystrix :)(tags: retries fault-tolerance networking tcp http exponential-backoff ip)