Simpler backoff

Exponential backoff with jitter is de rigeur for making service calls. This code, or something like it, probably looks really familiar: func do(ctx context.Context) error { const ( maxAttempts = 10 baseDelay = 1 * time.Second maxDelay = 60 * time.Second ) delay := baseDelay for attempt := range maxAttempts { err := request(ctx) if err == nil { return nil } delay *= 2 delay = min(delay, maxDelay) jitter := multiplyDuration(delay, rand.

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