Deadline Propagation - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Deadline propagation carries an absolute time budget across service-call boundaries (often in a request context) so each downstream hop knows how long it may take; when the deadline expires the entire call chain stops, preventing wasted work on a doomed request.
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