fair9

fair9/retry

Idiomatic retry library that respects a retry budget.

Why

To understand what this is trying to achieve, read https://jacquesbernier.medium.com/zero-is-a-good-default-number-of-retries-abe431941994

Features

• Process level retry budget
• Default to 0 retries
• Lock free implementation
• No background go routines
• Context support

Get Started

https://github.com/jacquesbernier/fair9/blob/c226e82bc45237fcabcf201810cdb38785956d2f/retry/examples/example_retry_test.go#L1-L42

Other libraries

Most other libraries rely on simple attempt count and backoff. This is not helpful in case large degradation.

• avast/retry-go
• giantswarm/retry-go
• sethgrid/pester
• cenkalti/backoff
• rafaeljesus/retry-go
• matryer/try