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Frontend and Backends Timeouts

Sep 07, 202425 min
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Episode description


I am fascinated by how timeouts affect backend and frontend programming.

When a party is waiting on something you can place a timeout to break the wait. This is useful for freeing resources to more critical processes, detecting slow operations and even avoiding DOS attacks.

Contrary to common beliefs, timeouts are not exclusive to request processing, they can be applied to other parts of the frontend-backend communications. Let us explore this briefly.


0:00 Intro

2:30 Connection Timeout

5:00 Request Read timeout

10:00 Wait Timeout 

12:00 Usage Timeout

14:00 Response Timeout

16:00 Canceling a request

19:50 Proxies and timeouts

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