Retry logic in distributed systems can amplify outages when multiple clients retry simultaneously on the same struggling dependency, turning brief failures into prolonged ones. The article examines how naive or misconfigured retry policies—from simple loops to complex frameworks—can send two or three times normal traffic to an already-failing service, and traces retry backoff strategies back to ALOHAnet and Ethernet.
Zenodo is experiencing service slowness and outages caused by heavy automated traffic from bots and AI crawlers. The team is working to stabilize the service.
Zenodo, a digital repository, is experiencing performance issues due to heavy automated traffic from bots and AI crawlers. The team is working to stabilize the service.