medium10 pts · first answer countsnetworkingresilience

Retry policy after an outage

After a backend outage, millions of app clients retry their failed requests. Which retry policy is best?

A.Retry immediately in a tight loop until it succeedsB.Retry exactly every 5 seconds on every client, so the server can predict the load and scale up before the next wave arrivesC.Never retry; show an error and stopD.Exponential backoff with random jitter and a maximum number of attempts, retrying only safe or idempotent requests

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