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What it is
A10 is new in Top 10:2025 and easy to dismiss: when an external API times out, does your code fail open or fail closed?
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Why you should care
Relevance: CoreExpected: L2
The “why you should care” block for this topic is not written yet. It is the cheapest content in the system (~15 min) and lands in Phase 1.
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