PostJitter is the cheapest reliability fix you are not using

Jitter is the cheapest reliability fix you are not using Distributed systems synchronise themselves without being told to: every client that retries on a fixed interval, restarts after a deploy, or reconnects after a network blip ends up firing at the same moment as every other client. The resulting spike is a self-inflicted denial of service that no single component is responsible for. Adding randomness to any repeating interval breaks the al... https://ankit-rana.com/logs/49-jitter-synchronised-clients/