Excon::Middleware::AWS::ExponentialBackoff

Excon middleware to exponentially backoff calling AWS APIs when throttled or experiencing errors.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'excon-middleware-aws-exponential_backoff'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install excon-middleware-aws-exponential_backoff

Usage

This gem is intended to be used with fog and excon when communicating with AWS APIs.

require "fog"
require "excon/middleware/aws/exponential_backoff/include"

10.times do
  p Fog::DNS::AWS.new(aws_access_key_id: 'key', aws_secret_access_key: 'secret').list_hosted_zones
end

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/mikehale/excon-middleware-aws-exponential_backoff/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Inspiration

• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/api-retries.html
• https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-ruby/blob/master/lib/aws/core/client.rb