Why bother with sleep with backoff_factor when you can just YOLO it with fixed delays?
Kidding. Don’t do that.
Backoff is smarter because it adapts. Servers *hate* constant spam. If you’re getting 429s, your script is basically DDoSing them.
Fun fact: AWS SDKs use exponential backoff by default. So if it’s good enough for Amazon, it’s good enough for you.
Kidding. Don’t do that.
Backoff is smarter because it adapts. Servers *hate* constant spam. If you’re getting 429s, your script is basically DDoSing them.
Fun fact: AWS SDKs use exponential backoff by default. So if it’s good enough for Amazon, it’s good enough for you.