Signal apps DDoS'ed their own server
IDK why mobile dev folks do blind retries thinking server is some kind of mage. I’ve had debates on how much retry makes sense for a login service I built. People have the tendency of hey this endpoint used to work with these parameters didn’t work? Fine I will keep retrying! The only difference here I think is in company paid job you step up immediately put in a server side fix to fix outage and then make these changes to roll them out. All of this is achieved in matter of hour or so rather than 12+ hours.<p>Circuit breaking, exponential backoff, bulkheading should be key pillars and no dev should be allowed to write a client without these key skills.<p>Edit: Please add Jitter to the list of items. Any good library like <a href="https://resilience4j.readme.io/" rel="nofollow">https://resilience4j.readme.io/</a> will give you all of this for free out of box!