
Bash Retry Function: Automatically Retry Failing Commands with Exponential Backoff
- Mohammad Abu Mattar
- Devops
- Shell scripting
- Automation
- Published: 20 Jul, 2026
Quick Tip Wrap any flaky command in one reusable retry function and stop re-running red pipelines by hand. The Problem The Problem Some commands fail for reasons that have nothing to

AWS EC2 Instance Management with Boto3: Start, Stop, and Query Instances
- Mohammad Abu Mattar
- Cloud
- Aws
- Devops
- Automation
- Published: 14 Apr, 2026
If you've ever spent 20 minutes clicking through the AWS Console just to stop a handful of dev instances, you already know the pain. It's tedious, it doesn't scale, and one wrong click can ruin your a