Storing events as the source of truth gives a perfect audit log and makes every subsequent decision harder, including the ones that seemed unrelated. The GDPR deletion problem…
KEYS blocks the server for the duration of a full keyspace walk, and Redis is single-threaded, so it blocks everything. The at-least-once guarantee means any script acting on…
Three retries per caller sounds modest and means four times the load on a struggling dependency, which is the opposite of what a retry is for. A budget…
Exponential backoff spreads a single client’s retries over time and does nothing about a thousand clients retrying in lockstep after one outage. The recovering-service failure is the one…