Empirical Study on Request Timeout and Retry for Microservices Communication
Hiroki Hanada, Keisuke Ishibashi · 2024
Microservices architecture offers significant scalability and flexibility, becoming the standard for large-scale web applications. However, its distributed nature introduces inherent uncertainty, particularly in service communication, leading to unpredictable behavior under varying load and failure conditions. This uncertainty poses challenges in maintaining system reliability and performance [1] .