Roberto Vitillo personal blog
Don't trust default timeouts
Modern applications don’t crash; they hang. One of the main reasons for it is the assumption that the network is reliable. It isn’t. When you make a network call without setting a timeout, you are telling your code that you are 100% confident that the call is going to succeed. Would you really take that bet? If you…
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Software EngineeringSystems & Performance2020
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 2020 | Don't trust default timeouts by kiyanwang | 139 | 115 |
