Retries & circuit breakers

A step of the Cloud application tree on Gradus, in the Testing & resilience area: Tests, errors, SLOs.

Add retry-with-backoff and circuit breakers around calls to external services, so one failing dependency can't cascade into a full outage.

Usually comes after: Centralized error handling.

Leads to: Load & chaos testing, Timeouts & bulkheads.

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Add retry-with-exponential-backoff and a circuit breaker around calls to external services and downstream dependencies.

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