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## [Bash Retry Function: Automatically Retry Failing Commands with Exponential Backoff](/codesnippets/post/bash-retry-function-exponential-backoff)

-   [Mohammad Abu Mattar](/authors/mohammad-abu-mattar)
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-   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

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## [AWS EC2 Instance Management with Boto3: Start, Stop, and Query Instances](/codesnippets/post/aws-ec2-instance-management-boto3-python)

-   [Mohammad Abu Mattar](/authors/mohammad-abu-mattar)
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-   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

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