Non-blocking backOff policy

[danveloper]

Would like to have a backOff policy that does not block the thread of execution. The use-case for this is roughly having a long-lived job that is comprised of many short-lived steps, where some step in the sequence retries potentially many times for a long period. Freeing up the thread will allow steps from other jobs to be executed during the blocking step's backOff period.

[poznachowski]

+1

[Snapu]

Is it not meant to make us of a stateful retry for such an use case? I also have a long living retry and need that feature too. But can't really get stateful retry to work.

[sofiaguyang]

+1

[ChaminW]

+1 any update?

[ashamukov]

Not an answer, just a few related links: #154 #176

[ipalopezhentsev]

Just use this library which achieves exactly what you want. I've been using it in several production systems for like 5 years - works great!
https://github.com/nurkiewicz/async-retry

[artembilan]

The project goes into a maintenance mode, therefore all users should consider to migrate to Spring Framework Retry API instead: https://spring.io/blog/2025/09/09/core-spring-resilience-features.