A retry-mechanism needs some limit, otherwise, you enter an infinite loop indeed. One retry seems good enough in most cases.
But you also need to take into account a period of time. If you are making 100 API calls per minute to the same API, you can safely consider that if a certain amount is failing, all the others will fail. What you would need here is a circuit breaker (and it's also a feature that we are actively working on at Bearer).
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A retry-mechanism needs some limit, otherwise, you enter an infinite loop indeed. One retry seems good enough in most cases.
But you also need to take into account a period of time. If you are making 100 API calls per minute to the same API, you can safely consider that if a certain amount is failing, all the others will fail. What you would need here is a circuit breaker (and it's also a feature that we are actively working on at Bearer).