Counter intuitive exponential backoff

[jasonjckn]

Counter intuitive exponential backoff

(take 10 (#'safely.core/exponential-seq 100))
;; => (100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100)

This had my mind scratching for 5 minutes, wondering if I was using your library wrong, not very exponential.

Why not

delay = base-delay * 2 ^ (retry-number - 1) +/- random-variation

[BrunoBonacci]

[corrected]

Indeed it is counterintuitive....
The formula I came up with follows the idea: "Do what I mean, not what I said"

In this page there is a full explanation of the formula and the expected behaviour
https://github.com/BrunoBonacci/safely#random-exp-backoff

Sorry, I misinterpreted your formula and sent you an incorrect response on earlier message

Indeed your solution works and I will plug it in the next release.

[BrunoBonacci]

Released with 1.0.0