python-resilience
Python resilience patterns including automatic retries, exponential backoff, timeouts, and fault-tolerant decorators. Use when adding retry logic, implementing timeouts, building fault-tolerant services, or handling transient failures.
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About python-resilience
The python-resilience skill provides a robust framework for implementing resilience patterns in Python applications. It addresses the challenges of transient failures, such as network timeouts and temporary service outages, by offering mechanisms like automatic retries, exponential backoff, and fault-tolerant decorators. This skill is essential for developers looking to enhance the reliability of their applications, ensuring they can gracefully handle interruptions and maintain service continuity even when external dependencies are unreliable.
Key features of the python-resilience skill include the ability to add retry logic to external service calls, implement timeouts for network operations, and build fault-tolerant microservices. It also supports handling rate limiting and backpressure, creating infrastructure decorators, and designing circuit breakers. By utilizing these features, developers can create applications that not only recover from transient errors but also optimize their performance during high-load scenarios.
This skill is particularly useful for software engineers, DevOps professionals, and system architects who are involved in building resilient applications. It is designed for those who need to ensure their services remain operational despite external disruptions, making it a valuable asset in cloud computing, microservices architecture, and any environment where reliability is paramount.
FAQ
How do I implement retry logic using python-resilience?
You can implement retry logic by using the `@retry` decorator from the `tenacity` library, specifying the conditions for retries, such as the number of attempts and the wait time between retries.
Is python-resilience compatible with all Python versions?
The python-resilience skill is compatible with Python versions that support the `tenacity` library, which generally includes Python 3.6 and above.
What are the limitations of using this skill?
The main limitation is that it is designed to handle transient failures only. Permanent errors, such as invalid credentials or client-side errors, should not be retried.
Can I customize the backoff strategy?
Yes, you can customize the backoff strategy by adjusting parameters such as the initial wait time and maximum wait time in the `wait_exponential_jitter` function.
What types of errors can I retry with this skill?
You can retry transient errors such as `ConnectionError`, `TimeoutError`, and specific HTTP status codes like 429, 502, 503, and 504.
Install python-resilience
Quick Setup:
- Copy the skill folder to
.claude/skills/ - Claude will automatically detect and use the skill
Repository
wshobson/agents