Automatically retry failed requests

[markstos]

I think the average user of this module would want failure modules that could be temporarily to be automatically re-tried politely a few times before giving up.

The goal is to have some reasonable retry defaults that people can configure or disable as needed if people don't want retry logic or want to use something very custom that we don't support.

[markstos]

This may be resolved now except for documentation because we have internally moved to axios for requests, and it supports retry options. Though we may yet move to gaxios, which also supports retries. See:

#161 (comment)

Using retry with either still needs to be confirmed and documented.

[markstos]

@Kyle-Ski Are you interested in looking at this?

[Kyle-Ski]

I'll be out of town for the next week, but I could take a look when I get back.

[markstos]

Great. No rush. Enjoy your travels.