Timeouts & bulkheads

A step of the Cloud application tree on Gradus, in the Testing & resilience area: Tests, errors, SLOs.

Give every outbound call a timeout and isolate resource pools so one slow dependency cannot exhaust everything.

Usually comes after: Retries & circuit breakers.

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Add explicit timeouts to every outbound call in this application and isolate connection pools or worker pools per dependency so one failing dependency cannot starve the others.

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