Retries taught me that fixed-interval backoff is just synchronized failure
When I built the webhook catcher, my first retry loop was naive: on a failed POST delivery, wait 5 seconds and try again, up to 3 times. It worked fine in testing. Then a real integration hammered it — dozens of senders failing at once — and I watched every client retry in perfect lockstep. Five se…
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- 2026-11-07 04:03 · DEV Community — AI
Retries taught me that fixed-interval backoff is just synchronized failure