# Retry Complexity

> The degree to which rejecting conflicting writes pushes retry-and-merge logic onto callers.

Record: `lex:retry-complexity`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Atomic Boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/atomic-boundary.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-retry-complexity

## category

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/transactions-state-concurrency.md)

## referenced-by

- [Optimistic Locking](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/optimistic-locking.md)