f=/v1.25/docs/concepts/traffic-management/#retries>retries</a> has been a core part of Istio&rsquo;s traffic management functionality.
In Istio 1.24, it gets even better.</p><p>Previously, retries were exclusively implemented on the <em>client sidecar</em>.
However, a common source of connection failures actually comes from communicating between the <em>server sidecar</em> and the server application,
typically from attempting to re-use a connection the backend is closing.
With this improved functionality, w