Retry Budgets

Model a bounded retry loop.

retry_budget.lua

local failures = 
local max_attempts = 3
local attempt = 0
local status = "retry"

while attempt < max_attempts and status == "retry" do
  attempt = attempt + 1
  if attempt > failures then
    status = "ok"
  end
end

if status ~= "ok" then
  status = "failed"
end

print("failures=" .. failures)
print("attempts=" .. attempt)
print("status=" .. status)

local failures = 
local max_attempts = 3
local attempt = 0
local status = "retry"

while attempt < max_attempts and status == "retry" do
  attempt = attempt + 1
  if attempt > failures then
    status = "ok"
  end
end

if status ~= "ok" then
  status = "failed"
end

print("failures=" .. failures)
print("attempts=" .. attempt)
print("status=" .. status)

local failures = 
local max_attempts = 3
local attempt = 0
local status = "retry"

while attempt < max_attempts and status == "retry" do
  attempt = attempt + 1
  if attempt > failures then
    status = "ok"
  end
end

if status ~= "ok" then
  status = "failed"
end

print("failures=" .. failures)
print("attempts=" .. attempt)
print("status=" .. status)

retry-budget Retry loops need a limit. A small counter and status label show whether the script stopped because work succeeded or because the budget ran out.