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Cascading Timeout Misconfiguration in Nested RPC Call Chains : State Divergence and Merge Integrity Under Concurrent Writers

GogRPCOpenTelemetryEnvoy

Problem Breakdown

The fundamental defect is that shared mutable state is updated by concurrent writers whose operations are only serialized after the fact, at reconciliation time. 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…

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