Infrastructure · Primitives
Backoff
Delay subsequent attempts after failure or contention
Definition
Mechanism
After an attempt encounters failure, rejection, or contention and a caller elects to try again, defer the next eligible attempt according to a delay policy. The policy may derive the delay from attempt count, failure history, feedback, or external conditions. Backoff supplies spacing; retry eligibility and retry budgets remain caller policy.
Invariants
None stated.
Risks
Failure modes
None stated.
Relationships
Root pattern: builds on nothing in this library.
Used by
References
Fail-fast protection against cascading failures
Geometrically increasing capped retry delay
Substrate-level re-attempt: same call, after a delay
Mind
Classified re-attempt with backoff conditioned on failure type
Extends
Geometrically increasing capped retry delay
Reference