Spring Boot Retry Pitfall: Timeout ≠ Failure — Idempotency & Concurrency Fixes
The article explains why naive retries after timeouts cause duplicate orders in Spring Boot, demonstrating how to properly classify retryable exceptions, implement idempotency with stable request IDs, handle non-idempotent third-party APIs via query-before-retry, add concurrency limits with @ConcurrencyLimit, and separate concerns into Service, Gateway, and Client layers using Spring Framework 7's @Retryable.
