Benjamin Cane • 8/9/2025

I can't count how often I've seen issues made worse by minor oversights—like not setting a timeout value. ⏱️

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The article explains how neglecting to configure settings like HTTP request timeouts, retry logic, and connection pool parameters in distributed systems can turn minor issues into major outages. It uses a real-world example where a default 5-minute timeout worsened a service failure. The author advocates for a proactive engineering culture that includes unit testing for failure scenarios and chaos engineering to catch these common oversights.

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#error handling #http #Timeouts
I can't count how often I've seen issues made worse by minor oversights—like not setting a timeout value. ⏱️

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