# Retry Complexity

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

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

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Conflict Detection](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/conflict-detection.md) and before [Version Field](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/version-field.md).

## Category

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

## In tension with

- [Optimistic Locking](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/optimistic-locking.md)
- [Optimistic Locking / Retry Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/optimistic-locking-retry-complexity.md)

## Linked from

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-transactions-state-concurrency.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)