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…etry Becomes an Outage Placeholder publish date (2026-04-13); adjust before publishing. Cross-links only to already-merged posts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A retry is a load multiplier that fires exactly when a system is least able to absorb it. Here is how naive retries cause retry storms and metastable failures, and the backoff, jitter, budgets, deadlines, and idempotency that keep retries from taking you down.
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