Implementing Azure Cloud Design Patterns

Retry pattern with transient failures

A transient failure is a common type of failure in a cloud-based architecture and often this is due to the nature of the network itself (loss of connectivity, timeout on requests, and so on).

A common way to react to these failures is to retry sending the request to the target application. You need to implement mechanisms that permit an automatic retry of requests if a failure occurs, maybe adding an increased delay between each retry attempt. This is commonly known as the Retry pattern.

In the Retry pattern, when there's a failure sending a request to a cloud service, the source application can react to this failure by providing the following actions:

• Retry: The source application can immediately retry ...