What’s the first safeguard you add when an automation becomes critical?
At some point, a script stops being something I can casually rerun and becomes something I actually depend on. That's usually when I start considering retries, structured logs,…
retries
When should intermittent service timeouts become a reliability problem?
A couple of our internal services occasionally time out under load. They retry with backoff, usually recover, and users generally don't notice. The problem is that this has…