This is a Go port of the exponential backoff algorithm from Google's HTTP
Client Library for Java. It includes support for Go
1.7's context.Context to cancel retries early.
Exponential backoff is an algorithm that uses feedback to multiplicatively decrease the rate of some process, in order to gradually find an acceptable rate. The retries exponentially increase and stop increasing when a certain threshold is met.
See https://godoc.org/github.com/codekoala/backoff#pkg-examples
- I would like to keep this library as small as possible.
- Please don't send a PR without opening an issue and discussing it first.
- If proposed change is not a common use case, I will probably not accept it.
This repository is forked from http://github.com/cenk/backoff and includes work from ash2k's fork.