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7.32Limit retries

Never:

while true
    retry Salesforce

because:

permanent outage
→ worker stuck forever

You need:

max attempts
timeout budget
failure policy

After exhaustion:

fail request
queue for retry
DLQ
alert
manual reconciliation

depending on architecture.