Retry Logic and Tiered Alerting in GitHub Actions (opens in new tab)

🛠️ Pipelines in the Wild #2 Byte Size Summary Most pipeline failures are transient — a registry returning a 503, a smoke test catching a slow cold start, a network blip during an image push. Retrying them automatically, with exponential backoff, means engineers never see them. The failures that reach a human should be the ones that actually need one. This article builds a retry wrapper and a three-tier alerting system (transient → silent, degraded → Slack warning, critical → PagerDuty page) o...