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title: "Only 5 retries when API fails? How about 2^53 retries?"
date: 2026-07-29
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Only 5 retries when API fails? How about 2^53 retries?

Does exponential backoff with a 10 minute ceiling, so that my sessions keep working even when there are API errors

https://github.com/osolmaz/onurpi/tree/main/packages/infinite-retry