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Comment by clnq

Perhaps you are right. Though it seems easier to reason about a system with a hundred timers running at a set cadence than a hundred exponential back-offs. Maybe I just have more experience with the former.

I guess you could always cap off the exponential interval increases at some max interval, making it basically a repeating timer.

Though there's still the question of why would you need this for telemetry. It doesn't feel like this type of "marketing" telemetry needs to be quite real time.

parent clnq 3 years ago

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