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Distinguishing a Transient Task Failure from a Deterministic One

Retry-with-backoff is the mechanism; this is the judgement that decides when to invoke it, and it cannot be folded in without losing the diagnostic content. It bears directly on the outcome's cost clause, since blind retries multiply the price of every genuinely broken task.

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Choosing Between Fixed Linear and Exponential Retry Backoff with Jitter in Distributed Systems

Backoff is the policy that determines the delay between successive retry attempts of a failed remote call, and the four canonical policies — fixed, linear, exponential, and exponential with jitter — …