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Timeouts — capping the wait

Without a timeout a slow dependency holds the caller's threads and connections until everything fails; pick one from the dependency's percentiles, inside your own deadline.

9 minMediumStation: Timeouts

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What you'll be able to do

  1. 1Choose a timeout from a dependency's latency percentiles and the caller's own time budget.
  2. 2Diagnose a cascading failure caused by missing timeouts.

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