GCP Cloud Functions Timeout scenarios When Calling External APIs with Python 3.9
I'm relatively new to this, so bear with me. I'm experiencing a timeout scenario with my Google Cloud Function that is supposed to call an external API... The function is written in Python 3.9 and uses the `requests` library to make a GET request to a third-party service. I've set a timeout of 5 seconds for the request, but the function is still timing out after 60 seconds, which is the default timeout limit for Cloud Functions. Here's the code I'm using: ```python import requests def call_external_api(request): url = 'https://api.example.com/data' try: response = requests.get(url, timeout=5) return response.json() except requests.exceptions.Timeout: return {'behavior': 'Request timed out'}, 504 except Exception as e: return {'behavior': str(e)}, 500 ``` I've deployed this function with the command: ```bash gcloud functions deploy call_external_api \ --runtime python39 \ --trigger-http \ --allow-unauthenticated \ --timeout 60s ``` Despite explicitly handling the timeout in my code, it seems that the Cloud Function is not respecting the timeout configuration. Could this be related to how Google Cloud Functions handles timeouts or is there something in my code that might be causing it to exceed the allowed execution time? I also verified that the external API is responsive and should return data quickly. Any insights on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated! This is part of a larger web app I'm building. What's the best practice here? I'm working on a service that needs to handle this.