Retries with backoff in distributed systems
2023-05-11
In a distributed system, where multiple processes communicate with each other over a network, failures are inevitable. Network partitions, hardware failures, and software bugs can all cause a request to fail. Retries with backoff are a critical technique to help mitigate these failures. Retries refer to the act of retrying a failed request. When a request fails, the client can retry the request, hoping that it will succeed the next time around. However, simply retrying the request immediately after a failure can be problematic. If the failure was caused by a temporary network issue, for example, retrying immediately will likely result in another failure. This is where backoff comes in.
Backoff · Distributed-Systems · Retries · Retry · Tech
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