Glossary
Every term the courses use, defined in one line and then in a paragraph. Written to be read out of order.
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Waiting longer between each retry.
Retrying after one second, then two, then four, with a little randomness added. Prevents everyone retrying in unison and turning a struggling service into a dead one.
See also Retry, Idempotency
How long a cached copy stays valid.
Time to live: the expiry on a cached item. Simple to reason about, at the price of accepting staleness up to that duration.
See also Cache, Invalidation