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Service collapses again after recovery

After a 5 minute outage, a service comes back and immediately falls over again. All clients retry every 1 second with no limit. What should the clients do?

A.Use capped exponential backoff with jitter, plus circuit breakersB.Retry faster so the backlog of failed requests clears soonerC.Add more retries per request so fewer calls fail for usersD.Disable load balancer health checks during the recovery

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