Retries and Timeouts with Bastian Hofmann
Dec 17, 2019•24 min•Ep. 4
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Episode description
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!
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Guests: Bastian Hofmann.
Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.
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