return -1;
                        }
                        int toRead = Math.min(buffer.length, remaining);
                        System.arraycopy(includeContent, index[0], buffer, 0, toRead);
                        index[0] += toRead;
                        return toRead;
                    });

    /**
     * Sends a request to the remote endpoint.
     *
     * @param request the request to send
     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
     */
    protected abstract void doSend(Request request) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Receives a response from the remote endpoint.
     *
     * @param response the response object to populate
     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs

      source: Buffer,
      byteCount: Long,
    ) {
      val toRead = minOf(remainingByteCount, byteCount)
      if (toRead > 0L) {
        source.read(buffer, toRead)
      }
      val toSkip = byteCount - toRead
      if (toSkip > 0L) {
        source.skip(toSkip)
      }
      remainingByteCount -= toRead
      receivedByteCount += byteCount
    }

    @Throws(IOException::class)

     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
     */
    protected <T extends Response> long doSend(final Request request, final T response, final Set<RequestParam> params, final long timeout)
            throws IOException {
        final long firstKey = prepareRequests(request, response, params, timeout);
        doSend(request);
        return firstKey;
    }

    /**
     * @param request
     * @param response

    // A String -- an event for which no one has registered.
    bus.post(EVENT);

    List<DeadEvent> events = catcher.getEvents();
    assertEquals("One dead event should be delivered.", 1, events.size());
    assertEquals("The dead event should wrap the original event.", EVENT, events.get(0).getEvent());
  }

  public void testDeadEventPosting() {
    GhostCatcher catcher = new GhostCatcher();

      // Fail fast if there's no response queued up.
      return failFastResponse!!
    }

    val result = responseQueue.take()

    // If take() returned because we're shutting down, then enqueue another dead letter so that any
    // other threads waiting on take() will also return.
    if (result == DEAD_LETTER) responseQueue.add(DEAD_LETTER)

    return result
  }

            if (recvException != null) {
                throw recvException;
            }
            return peekedKey;
        }

        @Override
        protected void doSend(Request request) throws IOException {
            if (sendException != null) {
                throw sendException;
            }
        }

        @Override

         * in sbuf will be preserved for copying into BUF in doRecv().
         */

        return key;
    }

    @Override
    protected void doSend(final Request request) throws IOException {
        synchronized (BUF) {
            ServerMessageBlock smb = (ServerMessageBlock) request;
            final int n = smb.encode(BUF, 4);

        maxReadWriteSize = Math.min(maxReadWriteSize, response.getMaxReadWriteSize());
        maxReceiveSize = Math.min(maxReceiveSize, response.getMaxReceiveSize());
    }
    
    @Override
    protected void doSend(ServerMessageBlock2 request) throws IOException {
        if (shouldUseRdmaReadWrite(request)) {
            sendWithRdmaReadWrite(request);
        } else {
            sendWithRdmaSendReceive(request);
        }

And if the server is restarted (for example after updates, or migrations from the cloud provider) you probably **won't notice it**. And because of that, you won't even know that you have to restart the process manually. So, your API will just stay dead. 😱

### Run Automatically on Startup { #run-automatically-on-startup }