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Pooled connections were silently dropped by the load balancer during quiet traffic periods, then handed back out as healthy — causing clean timeouts. The fix was tightening the transport's IdleConnTimeout to sit below the load balancer's threshold. The post reflects on Hyrum's Law, inherited defaults nobody consciously chose, and the difficulty of auditing assumptions baked into internal client libraries before incidents force the issue. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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