# Delayed retry

Term `delayed-retry`. Defer a failing operation instead of extending the caller’s wait with immediate repetition.

Practitioner: Nygard. Read in: *Release It!*, §5.1 Use Timeouts.

## Skills
- [uncomplect](/skills/uncomplect)

## Sources
- Nygard, Michael T. *Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software*. Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007. [Link](https://archive.org/details/releaseitdesignd0000nyga). ([b4-release-it](/bibliography#b4-release-it))