Retries and Timeouts with Bastian Hofmann

In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew talk with Bastian Hofmann
about handling retries and timeouts in PHP. Bastian shares a load
of great advice, including:


Having dedicated hosts for certain traffic

Distinguishing between normal users and admin users

Offloading work to asynchronous jobs

Default socket timeouts and max execution times

Automatic retries

Tuning settings and rules of thumbs as to how to do so

Tooling for monitoring

Circuit breakers

Integrating monitoring into legacy codebases


Plus loads load more!



Links


SysEleven GmbH

DataDog

NewRelic

statsd

Istio

linkerd

Kubernetes



Guests: Bastian Hofmann.


Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.





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