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REVISION / BACKOFF AND CASCADES

Retry storm

A small outage becomes a crowd of requests trying again.

The failure

Retries have no jitter or shared budget. A dependency slows down, callers retry, and the extra work deepens the slowdown.

The revision

Set deadlines, cap attempts, add jitter, and shed load. Retries should preserve a chance of recovery, not insist on one.