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Microservices patterns

Service boundaries, discovery, inter-service calls, and decomposition patterns.

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Retry idempotent GET requests in Python

A Python function that retries an idempotent GET request a fixed number of times with a delay between attempts, raising a RuntimeError only after all retries fail.

retry idempotent urllib
Python 
import time
import urllib.error
import urllib.request
from http.client import HTTPException

def fetch_with_retry(url, max_retries=3, delay=1.0):
    for attempt in range(1, max_retries + 1):
        try:
            with urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=5) as response:
                return response.read().decode…
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