Design Patterns · Middle · Question 57 of 75

Why add jitter to exponential backoff when retrying requests?

✓Correct answer: So many clients that failed at the same moment don't retry in synchronized waves and overload the server again
2To make retries faster
3Jitter is required by HTTP

Explanation

Randomized delays spread the load. Also cap the number of retries and retry only safe or idempotent operations.

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