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Cascading Timeout Misconfiguration in Nested RPC Call Chains : Quorum Fencing Under Partial Network Failure

GogRPCOpenTelemetryEnvoy

Problem Breakdown

The core architectural bottleneck is that the system's correctness boundary assumes a clean fail-stop model, but production networks deliver partial failures: some messages arrive, some are delayed, some are duplicated. A request traverses a 6-layer call chain where each layer sets its own timeout without respecting th…

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