- Distributed SystemsZola2025-01-20T00:00:00+00:00https://sysrex.com/tags/distributed-systems/atom.xmlRetries, Backoff, and Jitter: Why Naive Retry Logic Makes Outages Worse2025-01-20T00:00:00+00:002025-01-20T00:00:00+00:00
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https://sysrex.com/posts/retries-backoff-jitter/<p>"Just retry the request" is one of the most reasonable-sounding pieces of
advice in distributed systems, and one of the easiest to get badly wrong.
Done carelessly, retries don't make your system more resilient — they turn
a small, recoverable blip into a full outage.</p>