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and full jitter — the post’s recommended default — then draws the actual wait time as a uniform random value below that ceiling rather than using it directly, . Randomizing the wait, not merely lengthening it, is what decorrelates simultaneous retries into a spread-out stream the recovering dependency can actually absorb; the post reports that unjittered exponential backoff was “the clear loser” against every jittered variant it tested in simulation [ 7 ] .
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and full jitter — the post’s recommended default — then draws the actual wait time as a uniform random value below that ceiling rather than using it directly, . Randomizing the wait, not merely lengthening it, is what decorrelates simultaneous retries into a spread-out stream the recovering dependency can actually absorb; the post reports that unjittered exponential backoff was “the clear loser” against every jittered variant it tested in simulation [ 7 ] .
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