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How To Improve Your Backend By Adding Retries to Your API Calls

July 24th 2020
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How To Improve Your Backend By Adding Retries to Your API Calls. We'll explore adding status-code-specific retries to a request, making them incrementally longer with a technique called "back-off" This kind of remediation is crucial to ensuring your API calls are successful. Some libraries, like Node.js, support retries out of the box, while others like axios require a plugin. For example, we'll use 408, 500, 502, 503, 504, 522, and 524.

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