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API Timeout Strategies
Pick sensible timeouts
Designing timeouts means setting per-endpoint/client time limits based on downstream SLAs and budgets, coordinating with retries and circuit breakers so users get fast failures instead of hanging requests.
- timeouts
- retries
- slas
- circuit breakers
- latency
Set Budgets
Align timeouts to downstream SLAs and overall user latency goals.
Coordinate Retries
Shorten timeouts when retrying; cap total time and attempts.
Fail Fast
Combine with circuit breakers and clear errors for clients.
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