https://loopandretry.github.io/tags/distributed-systems/ Recent content in Distributed-Systems on Loop & Retry https://loopandretry.github.io/images/og-default.png https://loopandretry.github.io/images/og-default.png Hugo en-us Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:15:00 -0400 https://loopandretry.github.io/posts/fleet-retry-patterns/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:15:00 -0400 https://loopandretry.github.io/posts/fleet-retry-patterns/ A per-step retry cap bounds a step. It never bounds a run, and it never bounds a fleet — twelve workers each retrying ‘reasonably’ is how you turn one bad deploy into a bill. The four patterns that actually put a ceiling on what a fleet of agents can spend recovering from a failure: shared retry budgets, circuit breakers, decorrelated backoff, and poison quarantine.