Backend & systems·Resilience and failure handling
the dependency got slow, everything retried, and the extra load is now the reason it cannot recover.
Retry storm
Also calledretry amplification
A feedback loop where failures trigger retries that increase load and cause more failures. It is why an incident can outlive its original cause: the trigger passed, but the system is now generating its own load. Jitter, budgets and circuit breakers all exist to break this loop.