Dev Joke: Added Retries to the Pipeline, Now It Fails Five Times Instead of One
cto_junior · x · 2026-09-19
A developer quips that after adding retries to their pipeline, it now fails five times instead of one — a classic distributed-systems punchline about retries amplifying deterministic failures rather than fixing them.
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