How do you handle retries, timeouts, and backoff strategies in microservices communication?

Short answer: Handling retries, timeouts, and backoff strategies is essential to ensure resilience and fault tolerance in microservices. Implementation:

Real-world example (ShopNest)

If Payment is down, the Order service fails fast with a circuit breaker instead of hanging every checkout thread.

Say this in the interview

1. Define — one clear sentence (the short answer above).
2. Example — relate it to a project like ShopNest or your real work.
3. Trade-off — when you would not use it.