Visually Compare Retry Algorithms

[subomi]

https://www.compareretries.com/

[withinboredom]

This is awesome. It's nice to have a tool to show people why they shouldn't have non-capped exponential retries.

It would be even nicer if adding configurations updated the URL so you could actually share the configuration with others. Oh, and a log(time) axis for better visualizations of non-linear retries.

For now, just set a 5x exponential retry of 100ms...

[somehelpful → withinboredom]

It doesn’t seem so bad if you set the factor to something more reasonable like 2?

[withinboredom → somehelpful]

Why would you retry after 2ms? In most cases, the odds are extremely likely you’d have the exact same outcome; but it depends on your application.

[almostdeadguy → withinboredom]

2 is the factor, not the initial delay.

[andreygrehov]

+1 to the other commenter. Please, make the URLs shareable. Maybe use the PlantUML's technique as the inspiration.