Currently, when the execution of a stateful function fails, the call is retried using an exponential backoff scheme -- the initial delay is 10ms (original sync client) or 2ms (async Netty client), and it doubles on every subsequent failure, without limit, until the call succeeds or its budgeted time to complete expires.
It would be useful to be able to configure this, i.e. to supply an initial retry delay interval and to supply a max retry interval (i.e. not to be unbounded as it is now). Would you be interested in a contribution along these lines? I've implemented this locally for the Netty client; honestly, I don't need it for the older, synchronous client and would be fine just doing it for the newer, async one, but I could also implement it for the sync client as well. Please let me know, thanks.
