Glossary · AI-native development
Retry with Backoff
Repeating a failed transient operation after progressively longer delays, usually with randomized jitter and a strict retry limit.
Why it matters
Immediate synchronized retries can worsen an outage, consume rate limits, and duplicate side effects.
In practice
Retry a provider timeout after bounded exponential delays, honor server retry guidance, and reuse an idempotency key for any write.
Common confusion
Do not retry permanent validation or permission errors, and do not retry non-idempotent operations without a duplication strategy.
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