Retries are essential for reliability in distributed SaaS systems. Networks fail, services restart, and temporary outages happen. But retries can also become dangerous — especially when they happen too fast or too aggressively. A poorly designed ret...

In distributed SaaS systems, message brokers play a central role in connecting services. But even with retries, backoff strategies, and idempotency, some messages will inevitably fail. When that happens, you need a place where problematic messages ca...