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andrekandre • today at 12:50 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

  > To handle this correctly you need your RPC framework to accurately communicate retryable vs non-retryable failures to clients.
basically enumerate your errors, and depending on the type, retry or just return/forward that same "dont retry this" error?

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jdm2212 • today at 2:23 AM

Pretty much, but ideally it should be transparent to your app developers. App developer writes `rpc.doThing(...)` on one side, and an implementation on the other, and the infrastructure -- the RPC framework or the service mesh or whatever -- transparently handles when/whether to retry and where to route retries.