Resilient Software

3 Simple Timeout Tips That Will Eliminate Hanging Requests in Your Laravel API

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Imagine your online store calls an external payment API every time a customer places an order. One day the payment provider gets slow and takes 30 seconds, or more, to respond. Without a timeout, your app just waits. Each waiting request holds a PHP worker. Your server only has a limited number of workers, so … Read more

Why I’m Building Resilient Software

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Software rarely fails at the moment we expect it to. An API becomes unavailable. A third-party service changes its response. A network connection disappears. A webhook arrives twice. A service returns an unexpected error. These things happen. And when they happen, our software needs to know what to do. A little about me I’m Marcelo, … Read more