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Dan4:12 PM
@attest_tag what did we decide about retries this week, in three bullets? and who first suggested capping total retry time instead of the count?
attest_tagApp4:13 PM
- read_channel_history · last 7 days · 54 messages
- read_thread · “retries” · 2 threads
- remember · this channel · 1 fact
- Budget-based retries, not a fixed count: 2.5 s total per request with exponential backoff and jitter (10:07–10:08 Sat)
- The earlier proposal — 2 retries up to 5 — is dropped; Priya flagged it as brownout risk (09:58 Sat)
- Ships behind the payments client’s config flag first, on by default after a week (14:20 Mon)
Jack suggested the cap first — Saturday at 10:07, in this channel, as a counter-proposal: “What if we cap total retry time rather than retry count? 2.5s budget per request, however many attempts fit.” link
Saved for this channel: checkout timeouts are tracked in #payments-oncall, not here.
google/gemini-flash9.6k in410 out$0.0049Configure
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@attest_tag what did we decide about retries this week, in three bullets? and who first suggested capping total retry time instead of the count?
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