Workflow Reliability term
Retry policy
Defines when to retry, when to stop, and how to avoid making failures worse.
What it means
Plain meaning
retry strategy: Defines when to retry, when to stop, and how to avoid making failures worse.
Aliases
retry strategy, backoff, exponential backoff
Use it when your messy ask mentions
- failure handling
- temporary failure
- network
- try again
- flaky
- api error
- timeout
- backoff
Prompt phrase
Specify retry policy with timeout, backoff, maximum attempts, and non-retryable errors.
Before and after
Weak ask
Fix this failure handling flow.
Exact Terms ask
Specify retry policy with timeout, backoff, maximum attempts, and non-retryable errors.