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timeout capability

timeout adds context-based timeout middleware to your Go service, preventing hung handlers from exhausting your goroutine pool.

What You Get

Section titled “What You Get”
  • Timeout middleware
  • Configurable per-route timeouts
  • Context cancellation propagation

When to Use

Section titled “When to Use”

Without explicit timeouts, a hung external call blocks a goroutine indefinitely. Under load, this exhausts your connection pool and cascades failure to all callers. Add timeout to any service that calls external systems or runs non-trivial processing in HTTP handlers.

Requirements & Suggestions

Section titled “Requirements & Suggestions”

Requires: http-api

Add to Your Service

Section titled “Add to Your Service”
Terminal window
verikt new my-service --language go --cap http-api,timeout
# or add to an existing service:
verikt add timeout
Section titled “Related Capabilities”

circuit-breaker

Circuit breaker for when timeouts aren’t enough to stop cascades.

retry

Retry with backoff after a timeout.

http-client

Resilient HTTP client with built-in timeout handling.