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Understand how applications send instructions to models and handle production API behavior.
Exponential Backoff
Exponential backoff increases wait time between retries to reduce pressure on a failing service.
Think of it like
Think of Exponential Backoff like a restaurant or service desk: the request must reach the right endpoint in the right format and the response must be handled safely.
Real life
Web applications use concepts such as Exponential Backoff to communicate with external services.
SRE lens
It helps prevent a model-provider outage from turning into a retry storm.
Remember thisExponential backoff increases wait time between retries to reduce pressure on a failing service.