In general, helping prevent retry storms is one of the functions of a service mesh. E.g. Istio lets you configure exponential backoff with jitter, linkerd provides a retry budget and loadshedding based on backpressure.
“Adding complexity to the reverse proxy” is kind of the central feature of service meshes, but the point is you pick one that’s battle tested and solves more problems than it creates.
“Adding complexity to the reverse proxy” is kind of the central feature of service meshes, but the point is you pick one that’s battle tested and solves more problems than it creates.