[Implicated]

I know nothing. But I'd imagine the number of 'events' generated during this period of downtime will eclipse that number every minute.

[zimpenfish]

"I felt a great disturbance in us-east-1, as if millions of outage events suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced"

(Be interesting to see how many events currently going to DynamoDB are actually outage information.)

[nicce]

I wonder how many companies have properly designed their clients. So that the timing before re-attempt is randomised and the re-attempt timing cycle is logarithmic.

[8note]

nowadays i think a single immediate retry is preferred over exponential backoff with jitter.

if you ran into a problem that an instant retry cant fix, chances are you will be waiting so long that your own customer doesnt care anymore.

[mdavidn]

Most companies will use the AWS SDK client's default retry policy.

[lan321]

Why randomized?