.NET provides various tools to ensure a timely response from a REST endpoint
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www.damirscorner.comLimit web API response timeWhen an ASP.NET Core Web API REST service endpoint makes further calls to upstream REST services or interacts with other potentially slow resources, its response time strongly depends on the response times of those dependencies. Of course, you can always set a timeout for individual outgoing calls if you don't want them to take too long. But what if you want to set some time limit for your endpoint to respond instead?
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