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Why are timeouts important in service-to-service calls?

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#timeouts#resilience#cascading-failures
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Answer

Without timeouts, requests can hang and consume threads/connections, causing cascading failures. Timeouts let you fail fast, recover, and apply retries or fallbacks safely.

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