Retries Glossary
Browse 3 retries terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
3 Retries Terms
- Connection Retry
- A repeated attempt to establish or reestablish a connection after an initial failure, usually with backoff and limits. Connection retry behavior is important...
- Loop of Death
- A repeating cycle where a process, retry mechanism, or failure handler keeps triggering the same bad behavior without recovery. It is often used for restart...
- Third Time's the Charm
- A hopeful comment made before another attempt after earlier failures. In engineering slang, it is often said with equal parts optimism and exhaustion.
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