Jitter

What is Jitter?

The introduction of randomness into delay intervals during retries to prevent synchronized, repetitive requests from overwhelming a system.

In other languages

한국어지터

동시 재시도 충돌을 방지하기 위해 각 요청에 무작위 시간을 더하는 기법

日本語ジッター

リトライなどの処理タイミングに意図的にランダムな遅延時間を加え、同時アクセスによる過負荷の集中を回避する手法。

Related Terms

• Exponential backoff with jitterA retry strategy that increases waiting time exponentially and adds randomness to avoid many clients retrying at the same time.
• backoffRetry strategy that increases waiting intervals after failures to reduce repeated load or contention
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• Circuit BreakerSoftware design pattern used to detect failures and encapsulate the logic of preventing a recurring operation during periods of high latency or system instability
• Deficit Round RobinA packet scheduling algorithm that ensures fair bandwidth allocation by assigning a credit-based budget to each flow
• Optimistic Concurrency ControlA method for handling concurrent data updates by checking for conflicts before committing changes rather than using locks
• P95 latencyPerformance metric showing the response time below which 95 percent of requests complete
• HTTP 429Standardized HTTP status code indicating that the user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time