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

Written by corentin | Published 2020/07/24
Tech Story Tags: api | retry-mechanism | nodejs | programming | javascript | fetch-resources-in-an-api-call | fetch | node-fetch | hackernoon-es

TLDR 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.via the TL;DR App
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Written by corentin | Developer advocate at Bearer.sh - helping developers using APIs 🧸
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/07/24
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