PYTHON-5504 Prototype exponential backoff in with_transaction #2492
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PYTHON-5504 Prototype exponential backoff in with_transaction.
Using the repro scrip in jira which runs 200 concurrent transactions in 200 threads all updating the same document shows a significant reduction in wasted retry attempts and latency (from p50 to p100). Before this change:
After (with 50ms initial backoff, 1000ms max backoff, and full jitter, backoff starting on the second retry attempt):
Backoff starting on the first retry attempt appears to work even better:
Note I'm using free-threaded mode to make this repro more similar to the behavior of other languages and other deployment types (eg many single threaded clients running on different machines).