I was tired of pulling in 500KB just to retry a HTTP call — so I built my own

Your microservice calls an external API. It fails. You add Resilience4j. Now you have 10 transitive dependencies, a 500KB JAR, 3 config classes, and a @Bean method just to say "try 3 times, wait 1 second". I hit that wall one too many times. So I built RetryKit — a zero-dependency Java 17 retry & ci