jitter

A simple Go library providing functionality for generating durations and tickers that deviate from true periodicity within specified bounds.

Most notably, contains a nearly API compatible version of time.Ticker with definable jitter.

Usage

For usage details, see the Go documentation.

Example Ticker

// ticker with base duration of 1 second and 0.5 scaling factor
ticker := jitter.NewTicker(time.Second, 0.5)
defer ticker.Stop()

prev := time.Now()
for {
    t := <-ticker.C // time elapsed random in range (0.5s, 1.5s)
    fmt.Println("Time elapsed since last tick: ", t.Sub(prev))
    prev = t
}