Why back-off mechanism are critical in cloud solutions

What is a back-off mechanism?

It's one of the most basic mechanism used for communication between two systems. The core idea of this mechanism is to decrease the frequency of requests send from system A to system B if there are no data or communication issues are detected.

There are multiple implementation of this system, but I'm 100% sure that you use it directly of indirectly. A retry mechanism that increase the time period is a back-off mechanism.

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