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Backoff retry

Why you need it​

External calls fail. Retries must survive process death and surface errors for debugging.

Code examples​

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# StepOptions: execute retry with exponential backoff
# See SDK Step options / examples recovery pattern.

Attach execute retry policies on Step options so Dex retries the Step Execute with backoff.

How Dex implements it​

Failed Worker calls become Temporal activities with retry policies. Dex surfaces error details in Dex Web / history for debugging.

Traditional workarounds​

Homegrown retries live in application loops or queue consumers — easy to lose on deploy, hard to observe, easy to thundering-herd.