ReferenceIncidentsEra 3 · Series ARetry stormThe Database slowed for 20 s. Callers retried at once, and the retries kept it overloaded.What happens#The Database slowed for 20 s. Callers retried at once, and the retries kept it overloaded.How to prevent it#Backoff with jitter, circuit breakers, and load shedding.The postmortem opens the first of these that you do not own yet:Backoff with jitterCircuit breakersPriority load sheddingEngineering terms#Circuit breakerLoad sheddingMetastable failureRetry with backoff and jitter