NestJS · Senior · Question 29 of 75

How do you make outbound HTTP calls from Nest resilient?

1Rely on default timeouts
✓Correct answer: Set timeouts, retry idempotent calls with backoff and jitter, add circuit breaking, and limit concurrency per dependency
3Retry every call forever

Explanation

RxJS operators (timeout, retry with delay) work well with HttpService; libraries like cockatiel add circuit breakers.

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