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Why You're Still Getting 429s: The Hidden Cost of Distributed Rate Limiting
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Exponential back-off is configured. Circuit breakers are wired up. Outbound calls are throttled. And yet HTTP 429s keep filling the production logs. This episode of Automatic.co digs into why "Too Many Requests" errors become chronic in distributed environments — not because traffic is genuinely too high, but because of a fundamental flaw in how replicated systems count requests. The team walks…