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Google SRE Book: Addressing Cascading Failures

Documents retry traffic as a possible positive-feedback source during failures and recommends randomized exponential backoff for scheduled retries.

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Retry Choose retry when a specific failed operation can plausibly succeed if attempted again under the same scope. Retry repeats the same failed operation against the same request scope unless users explicitly edit that scope first. Google SRE documents retry traffic as a possible contributor to cascading failures and recommends randomized exponential backoff.

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