Exponential backoff by default?

[shouichi]

Hello, thanks for the hard work!

Suggestion

Can we change the default behavior to do exponential backoff? Because the default behavior of immediate retry can lead to high load and rarely solves problems.

Background

I switched from sidekiq to good_job recently and found that good_job retries jobs infinitely without backoff. This behavior was surprising for me to be honest. Sidekiq retries up to 25 times with exponential backoff by default (which I believe a good default).

[tedt10e]

Hi @shouichi

We already had a discussion about changing the default behavior for GJ3 @ #495

[shouichi]

@tedhexaflow Thank you. Great to hear that 👍