HardDesign: Distributed Task Scheduler (Cron at Scale)
What is 'jitter' in the context of retry strategies?
— Tests your understanding of this concept.
Answer Options
ARandom delay added to retry intervals to prevent multiple retrying services from hammering the same target simultaneously
BMeasurement of network latency variation
CA bug in the cron parser
DCPU performance variation
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