Should we set a default retry strategy?

[ajkannan]

Right now, the default setting when creating a service is to not retry at all. Should we instead set a default retry strategy? While retrying is important for some services, setting the default to retry may increase the costs for users.

Alternatively, we could have two shortcut methods to get the options, defaultInstanceNoRetries and defaultInstanceWithRetries

[aozarov]

And if we don't change the default we should highly encourage it in our documentation and examples.

[aozarov]

Considering what we see in integration tests and the added value of retry handling my vote would
be to use the default in the default settings and document that we are using a retry handling which could be disable by setting RetryParams.noRetries().

@mziccard what do you think?

[mziccard]

Yes I agree we should retry by default given the amount of requests we see fail in ITs

[ajkannan]

Great, I'll assign this issue to myself then.