Apply DoorDash's documented retry-backoff strategy and idempotency key to Drive API calls
domain: developer.doordash.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Classify error responses per DoorDash's documented guidance: 4xx = do not retry (fix the request), 429 = retry after at least 1 second and avoid bursts, 5xx = retry with exponential backoff and jitter
Implement retries with DoorDash's recommended parameters (up to 3 attempts, backoff factor ~2, delay between 1s and 5s, randomized jitter)
Pass a stable external_delivery_id on delivery-creation calls so a retried create-delivery request is treated as idempotent rather than creating a duplicate delivery
Use an existing resilience library (e.g. Polly, Resilience4j, or a retry npm/pip package) instead of hand-rolling backoff logic
Log retry attempts, elapsed time, and error responses, and escalate to DoorDash support if retries are consistently required
Known gotchas
Never retry immediately more than once, and never retry indefinitely — DoorDash explicitly calls out unbounded/naive retry as an anti-pattern
Retrying at multiple layers (your app and an upstream gateway both retrying) can amplify load and cause cascading failures — coordinate retry ownership
Idempotency relies on your own external_delivery_id being stable and unique per logical delivery; reusing an id for a genuinely new delivery will be rejected or matched to the old one
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