Pattern 22 / RESILIENCE
Use this when preventing slow dependencies from tying up resources forever.
Timeout fits when preventing slow dependencies from tying up resources forever. Mechanism: set a deadline for every external call and fail fast or fall back when exceeded. Use it for all network, database, cache, queue, and file calls in distributed systems. The toll: too short causes false failures; too long delays recovery.
All network, database, cache, queue, and file calls in distributed systems.
Api call aborts a pricing service request after 250 ms.
Describe the pressure first, then the mechanism, then the cost. That keeps the design grounded.
Same pressure family