HTTP Client Resilience

Design outbound calls to be predictable and observable.

Commands

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

$res = Http::baseUrl(config('services.foo.url')) ->timeout(5) ->retry(3, 200, throw: false) ->withHeaders(['Accept' => 'application/json']) ->get('/v1/things', ['q' => 'bar']);

if (!$res->successful()) { Log::warning('foo api failure', [ 'status' => $res->status(), 'body' => substr($res->body(), 0, 500), ]); }

Patterns

• Set timeouts explicitly (client and server defaults differ)

• Use limited retries with backoff for transient failures only

• Prefer dependency injection for testability

• Add request/response context to logs (redact sensitive data)

• Use pool() for concurrency when calling multiple endpoints