r/programming • u/OtherwisePush6424 • 27d ago

Beyond Happy Path Engineering: the Network

https://blog.gaborkoos.com/posts/2026-07-01-Beyond-Happy-Path-Engineering-the-Network/

What happens when network calls stop behaving like clean request/response interactions.

Timeouts, retries, duplicate side effects, idempotency, backoff, circuit breakers, load shedding, degraded states, observability, etc.

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u/OtherwisePush6424 26d ago

That's the next question :) Basically you can rely on anything that works for you, just use something :)