How APIs Use Retry Logic to Survive Network Failures

When a network call fails, should your API retry immediately or back off? This episode of The API Podcast drills into retry strategies — exponential backoff, jitter, and the dreaded thundering herd problem. Lucas and Luna unpack how Stripe handles idempotent retries for payment intents, why Amazon S3 uses truncated exponential backoff, and what happens when every client retries at the exact same second. They also break down the Retry-After header, the difference between safe and unsafe retries, and the one rule that keeps retries from making an outage worse. If you've ever seen a 429 or a 503 and wondered whether to hit the button again, this episode explains when to wait — and by how much. #APIRetry #ExponentialBackoff #ThunderingHerd #Stripe #AmazonS3 #HTTPStatusCodes #Idempotency #Jitter #RetryAfter #NetworkFailure #APIResilience #BackendEngineering #DistributedSystems #TechPodcast #APIPodcast #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #SoftwareArchitecture Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo