# Never Give Up, Retry: How Software Should Deal with Failures - Host: [allyouneedisbackend.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/allyouneedisbackend.com/) - Saved: September 25, 2017 (2017-09-25T11:57:44Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/53aee275f77e/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/53aee275f77e.json ## What Jamie wrote It’s hard to quantify the number of system issues in various systems I've seen through the years that are the result of poor retry logic in code. Retry logic is the close cousin of exception handling and these two areas are where a lot of large system failures cause huge challenges. Pessimistic retries around services you depend on can make a **huge** difference in real system performance. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT21: Weekly Thing for September 30, 2017](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/21/), Links 📌 ## Saved the same week - [Jared Sinclair | Blog | Apple Watch Series 3 First Impression: Mindblown.gif](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8844961d8c06/) (blog.jaredsinclair.com, September 26, 2017) - [Relicensing the GraphQL specification – Lee Byron – Medium](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/46846bd18222/) (medium.com, September 27, 2017) - [I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets | Technology | The Guardian](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6e28268a23d3/) (theguardian.com, September 27, 2017) - [Your future cloud is hybrid, and so is Azure —Microsoft Azure Blog](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/997705177c54/) (azure.microsoft.com, September 27, 2017) - [The 5 biggest announcements from today’s Amazon hardware event - The Verge](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d89a7965d2b8/) (theverge.com, September 27, 2017) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://allyouneedisbackend.com/blog/2017/09/15/how-backend-software-should-retry-on-failures/