Retries are load, not safety. Without exponential backoff and jitter, your retry logic doesn’t protect against outages, it causes them. This post covers the mechanics of retry storms, five anti-patterns found in real production code, and what correct retry design actually looks like across layered Azure architectures.
Autoscaling is not a recovery strategy. It’s an elasticity tool, and knowing the difference is what separates teams that survive incidents from teams that just watch their instance count go up while users experience the outage anyway.
