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    Retry, backoff and jitter: when clients kill the service

    After an outage, 2,000 clients retry in lockstep and the service goes down again. Exponential backoff, cap, full jitter and decorrelated jitter (Marc Brooker, AWS), the AWS SDK retry budget, Retry-After and idempotency keys, with a simulation you can run in the page.

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