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This is excellent news if it can actually be enforced.

Author here - yes, Failsafe-go definitely took some inspiration from Polly, but it also borrows ideas from the Failsafe JVM library [1]. Polly and Failsafe influenced each other ba…

Author here - I do get this critique, and of course API design is subjective, but there was a rationale behind the design choices. Putting each policy in its own package allowed th…

There are some (imperfect) workarounds, ex: https://github.com/jhalterman/typetools

I would love to learn how Bob approached interviewing, if you've ever up to writing this up!

While I didn't know Bob personally, he did he an impact on me. Bob was the first person I looked up to as an open source engineer early in my career. I studied his code closely, an…

Atomix has a Jepsen test suite[1], which while not perfect, has helped fix the bugs that existed in the Raft implementation. 1: https://github.com/atomix/atomix-jepsen

"For ILock, the lock is not mutually exclusive under split brain. However it can still be useful as an advisory lock." Why use a lock that isn't safe when there are other alternati…

For anyone wondering if there is a set of Hazelcast like data structures and primitives that actually have safe, strong consistency (based on Raft consensus), check out Atomix: htt…

12B sounds like an incredible number for labs. Is there a source?

Good example of where random retry delays would be valuable. I filed this as a feature to add for the next release: https://github.com/jhalterman/failsafe/issues/39

> Is there a more detailed comparison? There's nothing more detailed that I know of. Is there a particular feature area/comparison you're curious about? I can add a bit more detail…

Good question. Someone asked that recently on Github - here's a quick comparison: https://github.com/jhalterman/failsafe/wiki/Comparisons#fail...

Author here: fully agree. Blindly retrying an operation any failed operation could lead to cascading failures or system overload, which is what circuit breakers are intended to avo…

Author here, Failsafe does support exponential backoffs [1]: retryPolicy.withBackoff(1, 30, TimeUnit.SECONDS); and if you want to specify the exponent [2]: retryPolicy.withBackoff(…