Retry Pattern / Load Amplification
Kind: tension
Record: tension:load-amplification-retry-pattern
Canonical: Schema
"retry-pattern" (correctness-core layer) is traded against "Load Amplification" (correctness-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Load Amplification" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Fallback Pattern / Stale/Reduced Results and before Timeout Pattern / Slow Operation Tolerance.