Retry with Backoff & Jitter
🔴 P0 — the default error recovery mechanism; Stripe definitely asks about this
🔴 P0 — the default error recovery mechanism; Stripe definitely asks about this
🔴 P0 — prevents cascading failures by stopping calls to a failing service
🔴 P0 — staff-level framing question: how do multi-service workflows coordinate?
🔴 P0 — the most fundamental reliability mechanism; every network call needs one
🔴 P0 — definitely Stripe territory; protecting services from overload
🔴 P0 — the most fundamental inter-service communication decision
🔴 P0 — the distributed transaction pattern for microservices; critical for Stripe payment flows
🔴 P0 — “There are only two hard things in CS: cache invalidation and naming things”
🔴 P0 — the classical distributed transaction protocol and why it’s limited