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Aastha Bist
Are retry and backoff strategies a way of testing things?

Aastha Bist

May 21, 2024

Under retry and backoff strategies, I did not understand this particular statement: "This can increase the likelihood of successful operation completion while preventing excessive load on the system during failure scenarios."

Can someone please provide more context/examples related to what this means?

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LeafarBlu BR
LeafarBlu BRa year ago

Temporary failures could be normal in distributed systems, so a simple retry after a failure could become a successful response.

The backoff strategy is to avoid overloading the failing system with multiple requests that will result in failures, for example, imagine ...

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