Technical writing on software architecture, distributed systems, industrial software and AI.https://emregorgulu.com/en-UShttps://emregorgulu.com/en/articles/retry-timeout-and-backoff/https://emregorgulu.com/en/articles/retry-timeout-and-backoff/Retrying a failed request seems reasonable. But what happens when our retries increase the load on a service that is already struggling to recover?Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTDistributed Systemsretrytimeoutbackoffjitterresiliencehttps://emregorgulu.com/en/articles/transactional-outbox/https://emregorgulu.com/en/articles/transactional-outbox/In distributed systems, committing business data and publishing the corresponding event are two operations with different failure points.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTDistributed Systemstransactional-outboxmessagingconsistencyidempotencyhttps://emregorgulu.com/en/articles/idempotency-in-distributed-systems/https://emregorgulu.com/en/articles/idempotency-in-distributed-systems/A timeout does not necessarily mean an operation failed. That uncertainty is often the real challenge behind designing safe retries.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTDistributed Systemsidempotencyretriesmessagingindustrial-systems