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Defines progressively delayed retries but does not specify timing formulas, limits, or implementation parameters.

Exponential backoff

A retry strategy that increases the delay between successive attempts, typically exponentially.

Exponential backoff is a retry strategy that increases the delay between successive attempts. It helps enterprise applications handle failures and latency when calling generative-AI cloud APIs. section 1.7

Apply the technique as part of broader production resilience:

Design for failure because generative-AI endpoints can be complex and have considerable latency. section 1.7
Combine retry mechanics with caching, security, and established enterprise architecture practices. section 1.7

Enterprise API retry policy

When a generative-AI cloud API call fails, retry it with progressively longer delays rather than sending attempts immediately, while retaining the surrounding caching, security, and failure-handling controls. section 1.7

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retryused by · A retry is a subsequent attempt to perform an operation after an earlier attempt fails or does not complete successfully.
jitteruses · Jitter is randomized variation added to scheduled or retry delays to prevent synchronized activity among multiple clients or recurring communications.
transient failureaddressed by · A transient failure is a temporary failure condition that may resolve on its own or not recur when an operation is attempted again.
machine learningkind of · Machine learning is a field of computational methods in which systems learn patterns or relationships from data to make predictions, decisions, or other outputs.
CrashLoopBackOffproduces · CrashLoopBackOff is a Kubernetes container status reason indicating repeated failures followed by progressively delayed restart attempts.
rate limitused by · A rate limit is a bound on the frequency or volume of operations permitted within a defined interval, scope, or concurrency limit.

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