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…struggling. AWS’s widely adopted answer is to randomise the delay rather than only grow it, and the simplest of the algorithms it documents, full jitter, is stated as $t_n = \mathrm{random}\!\left(0,\ \min\!\left(t_{\max},\ t_{\mathrm{base}} \cdot 2^{n}\right)\right)$. drawing the wait before attempt n uniformly between zero and a capped exponential ceiling, rather than sleeping for the ceiling itself [ 8 ] . The reasoning given is about contention, not just delay: without jitter, “N clients compete in the first round, N-1 in the second round” and so on, and even adding plain exponential…

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