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Why add jitter to retries?

Your clients retry failed calls with exponential backoff. Why should you also add random jitter to the wait time?

A.To stop many clients from retrying at the same moment and overloading the recovering service in synchronized wavesB.To make each retry faster than the previous oneC.To make sure every retry goes to a different regionD.Jitter is only needed when the requests are not idempotent

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