🔧 I Added Retry Logic to My SQLite Failure Library. Here's the Exponential Backoff Pattern That Works.

Hook


My SQLite failure library started throwing "database is locked" errors under concurrent load. Multiple agents writing failures simultaneously caused write contention. I needed retry logic — but not the dumb kind.




The Fix


The problem: SQLite's default timeout is 5 seconds. Under heavy concurrent writes, agents timeout before the...