Glossary

Jitter (retries)

Jitter adds randomness to retry wait times so many clients that receive errors simultaneously do not all retry at the same moment. Full jitter picks wait uniformly between 0 and the backoff ceiling; decorrelated jitter (AWS-style) walks the backoff space using the previous sleep time.

Formula: AWS-style: sleep = random_between(base, min(cap, random_between(base, prev_sleep × 3))).

Last updated: March 2026