Microservices

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Cloud Computing 01 Sep 2026 4 min read

Propagate Timeout Budgets Across Cloud Services

A request that crosses several cloud services does not have one timeout. It has a chain of deadlines: client, edge proxy, application, database, and downstream APIs. When those limits are configured independently, an upstream service can give up while downstream work continues consuming connections and CPU for a response nobody will use. An end-to-end timeout budget gives the request one bounded lifetime and lets each hop consume part of it.

Cloud Computing Distributed Systems

Cloud Computing 06 Sep 2025 3 min read

Reverse Proxy with Nginx and Go for Microservices

As an application grows, splitting it into smaller services can make independent deployment and scaling easier. For example: Product service on port 8080 Blog service on port 8081 Users should not need to know those internal ports. An Nginx reverse proxy can expose both services under one domain and route requests by URL path. 1. Configure the Nginx Reverse Proxy Create a site configuration: sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourdomain.com Add:

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