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09:00. Today: 2 given up, 18 retries, at most 4 due in one minute.0 waiting · 1 busy · 0 done
Chapter 4 of 7
Try again later
Mid-sale, the courier’s booking site stops answering. Jobs fail, and the workers put them back to try again.
This chapter: How soon should a failed job try again?
About this chapter
You will learn
- A retry tries a failed job again
- Backoff waits longer after each failure
- Jitter spreads retries so they don’t land together
Words you’ll meet
- Retry
- Trying a failed job again.
- Backoff
- Waiting longer before each new try, doubling the wait each time.
- Jitter
- A random part of the wait, so jobs that failed together don’t retry together.
Step 1 of 6
At 09:10 the courier’s site goes down. A failed job gets a at once, up to 4 tries.
Step to 09:12.