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Cascading Timeout Misconfiguration in Nested RPC Call Chains : Retry, Timeout, and Circuit-Breaker Composition Failures
GogRPCOpenTelemetryEnvoy
Problem Breakdown
The defect class here is composition: individually sensible timeouts, retries, and circuit breakers interact multiplicatively when layered across a call graph. A request traverses a 6-layer call chain where each layer sets its own timeout without respecting the parent's remaining budget; a 200ms root deadline arrives a…
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