Retry logic that doesn't make things worse

Why naive retries backfire

[TODO: explain thundering herd / retry storms under a real incident, if you have one.]

for attempt in range(3):
    try:
        call()
        break
    except Exception:
        time.sleep(2 ** attempt)

[TODO: a real pull-quote pulled from the piece.]

What we do instead

[TODO: jitter, budget-based retries, circuit breakers — whatever you actually run.]