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Why timeouts limited waiting but failed to contain system-wide overload, leading to cascading failures under production load.
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Retry logic is commonly added to improve reliability. In real systems, it can amplify failures, increase load, and turn partial degradation into full outages.- Published on
Some bugs only surface when systems experience real traffic. This article examines why production load changes behavior, even when code paths appear identical.