jargon

Applied AI·The API layer

you retry the failed call, wait twice as long, retry again, and add a little randomness so your whole fleet does not retry in lockstep.

Exponential backoff

Draft summary, pending review

The standard retry strategy: on failure, wait, then retry with doubling delays plus jitter. Combined with a retry budget it handles rate limits and transient errors. You have written this before; it applies unchanged.

Commonly confused with