https://imran-khan.com/tags/distributed-system/ Recent content in Distributed System on Imran Khan Hugo -- 0.127.0 en-us Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:00:41 +0000 https://imran-khan.com/posts/timeouts-retries-and-backoff-with-jitter/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:00:41 +0000 https://imran-khan.com/posts/timeouts-retries-and-backoff-with-jitter/ Have you ever wondered when one service calls to another service and you get no response back? its hard to tell of the other side is slow , dead or message got lost. These are 4 techniques how systems cope. I give you what these terms are with analogy and the CS term as well for better understand. Timeouts Analogy: You call a restaurant and it just rings. Eventually you hang up instead of waiting forever.