Lexicon

Jitter

Kind: technique

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: lexicon:jitter

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for adding a random offset to retry delays, so clients that failed together do not retry together.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Bounded Retry and before Deadline Propagation.

Category

  • Error Handling / Resilience

Refactors

  • Retry Storm

Linked from

  • Anti-patterns