Does sleep with backoff_factor actually improve performance in long-running tasks? or How effective i

I've used sleep with backoff_factor in API retries, and it’s a game-changer. Fixed delays just hammer the server when it’s already struggling. Exponential backoff gives it breathing room.

For DB calls, it depends—if the DB is under load, yeah, it helps. But for scraping? Maybe overkill unless you’re hitting rate limits hard.

Check out the `tenacity` library in Python—makes implementing sleep with backoff_factor stupid easy.