Sometimes the infrastructure causes this. For a long time (and now?) AWS Api Gateway has a hard cap of 30 seconds, so the sum of all hops along the way need to remain under that.
A timeout at that level should mean “no progress” for 30s, not that a request/response needs to finish in 30s. An naive timeout that a dev randomly implements might be the latter and would be the source of my past frustration.
withinboredom|3 years ago