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Retries and dependencies in pipelines

Retries help recover transient failures, while dependencies prevent downstream work from running on incomplete upstream data.

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Retries and dependencies in pipelines

Retries help recover transient failures, while dependencies prevent downstream work from running on incomplete upstream data.

  • Retry only safe tasks
  • Use backoff for transient issues
  • Surface hard failures early

Retries and dependencies in pipelines