Transient failures in downstream systems led to the need for a controlled, scheduled retry mechanism in an Azure integration project.
The solution involved implementing an auto-healing pattern using Azure Service Bus for scheduling retries and Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) support, along with Azure Functions for message processing.
The high-level retry flow included incrementing retry count on transient failure, scheduling re-queued messages with a delay, and moving messages to DLQ after reaching the maximum retry limit.
This approach, which leveraged Azure Service Bus and Azure Functions, provided a serverless, cost-effective, and Azure-native pattern to improve resilience in message processing flows.