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The Pitfalls of Once-Only Retry We briefly touched upon the topic of accounting for failures in distributed systems : we can’t always assume that a client application will receive a response from a backend server. We must account for failure. In our world, Bob, a burgeoning junior engineer, thinks about working around a failing system…