Connection Retry

Definitions

1. A repeated attempt to establish or reestablish a connection after an initial failure, usually with backoff and limits. Connection retry behavior is important for resilience, but if implemented poorly it can amplify outages by hammering a recovering dependency.

   In plain English: Trying again to make a connection after a failure.

   Example: "They added jitter to the connection retry logic after every worker started reconnecting at the same instant during a database failover."

Related Terms

• Retry
• Timeout
• Availability Pattern
• Client Pool
• Connection
• Connection Handler
• Connection Limit
• Connection Timeout