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Question1 answer4,308 followingPosted 28 Jun 2025, 01:31 UTC127.9K views3,458 votes

Lambda Function Times Out Before API Gateway Integration Completes: Diagnosing Mismatched Timeout Settings

Goal: Configure an AWS Lambda function invoked synchronously through Amazon API Gateway so that the function completes before the integration timeout, thereby avoiding 504 Gateway Timeout errors while keeping compute waste low. Constraints: The Lambda runtime enforces a hard timeout at the configured value, issuing a SIGTERM that allows a brief cleanup windo

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Question1 answer1 comment912 followingPosted 25 Apr 2020, 03:07 UTC134.5K views4,976 votes

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Immediate SIGKILL after kill_timeout vs Graceful SIGTERM Handling: Choosing the Right Nomad Shutdown Strategy

When stopping a Nomad job allocation, the scheduler first sends SIGTERM and then waits the duration defined by kill_timeout before escalating to SIGKILL if the task is still running. For rolling updates, the stop_timeout in the update stanza determines how long Nomad waits for a canary allocation to stop before proceeding. The goal is to choose a shutdown ap

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sigterm kill-timeout stop-timeout

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