Why should retries use backoff and jitter?
Practice this question from Quiz: Handling Downstream Latency with Circuit Breaker, with options and an explanation.
Question
Why should retries use backoff and jitter?
Option A — Correct answer
To avoid synchronized retry storms
Option B
To guarantee zero latency
Option C
To remove the need for timeouts
Option D
To make all requests non-idempotent
Explanation
Backoff and jitter reduce repeated load spikes.