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retry storm

/rɪ.ˈtraɪ stɔːrm/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A pipeline responding to a small problem with the enthusiasm of a much larger one.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A cascading overload in which many failed tasks retry simultaneously, amplifying load on an already-degraded system and prolonging the outage.

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See also

change data captureCapturing every change the source makes, including the ones it would prefer you had not noticed.
dead-letter queueWhere the records that could not be processed go to be inspected, in the same sense that a junk drawer is a filing system.
idempotencyThe property everyone assumed the job had until the day it ran twice.
on-call rotationThe one place the org reliably assigns pipeline ownership: at 3 a.m., to whoever is holding the pager.