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Exponential backoff

Section titled “Exponential backoff”

Exponential backoff increases the delay between successive retry attempts, commonly by multiplying the previous delay by a fixed factor.

Backoff reduces repeated pressure on an unhealthy dependency and gives recovery time between attempts.

Production retry policies usually combine backoff with a maximum delay, bounded attempts, and jitter so many clients do not retry in lockstep.

Used in DKKB

Retries and exponential backoffRetry selected transient failures with bounded attempts, increasing delays, and jitter so recovery attempts do not become new load spikes.
Retries and exponential backoffRetry selected transient failures with bounded attempts, increasing delays, and jitter so recovery attempts do not become new load spikes.