⬡ API & SDK/2026-07-07Advanced
When Claude API Suddenly Starts Returning 429 in Production — Field Notes on Measuring Rate-Limit Headroom from Headers and Throttling Before You Run Dry
Scrambling to add retries after a 429 is always a step behind. Claude API writes how much you have left into every response header. These are field notes on measuring that headroom continuously and throttling yourself before it runs out.
⬡ API & SDK/2026-03-29Intermediate
Claude API 429 Errors in Production: Lessons from Six Parallel Content Pipelines
When Claude API starts returning 429 Too Many Requests, the official exponential-backoff snippet alone is rarely enough. Drawing on six content pipelines run by one indie developer, this guide covers the real failure modes I have observed, working Python and TypeScript retry implementations with jitter, a token-bucket throttle, and concrete criteria for moving jobs to the Batch API.