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4 questions in Retries & Backoff.

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A dependency degrades to 2-second latency rather than failing outright, and retries triple the load on it. Why is slow worse than down, and which mechanisms actually prevent the amplification?

A dependency degrades. Your service retries three times with exponential backoff. The dependency never recovers until you deploy a change. Why?

A wallet platform sees intermittent failures from a downstream bank, and its own retries turn a partial degradation into a total outage. What combination of controls prevents a retry storm?

During a regional degradation, a mobility platform's services perform millions of retries against a slow dependency, and the dependency never recovers until traffic is manually cut. Analyse the failure and identify which four controls would have prevented it.