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When adding retry logic to external calls, implementing timeouts, building fault-tolerant services, or handling transient failures (network issues, rate limits, service outages).
tenacity decoratorsFault-tolerant Python code that survives dependency instability: automatic retries with backoff, logged attempts, capped loops, and graceful degradation.
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A backend engineer integrates a third-party payment API that occasionally returns 503 or times out. Using this skill, they apply a tenacity retry decorator with exponential backoff and jitter, whitelisting only transient network errors and 5xx/429 statuses. Result: fewer failed transactions, no thundering herd, and clear retry logs for ops visibility.
A microservice calls multiple internal endpoints over unstable network. The developer uses the skill's combined exception/status retry pattern with stop_after_attempt and stop_after_delay bounds, plus before_sleep logging. This prevents infinite loops and surfaces systemic issues via retry-rate monitoring, keeping the service available during partial outages.
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