Timeout Pattern / Slow Operation Tolerance
Kind: tension
Record: tension:slow-operation-tolerance-timeout-pattern
Canonical: Schema
"timeout-pattern" (correctness-core layer) is traded against "Slow Operation Tolerance" (correctness-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Slow Operation Tolerance" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Retry Pattern / Load Amplification and before Circuit Breaker Pattern / Availability of Degraded Dependency.