429 Is Not a Failure: Five Retry Fallacies You Can Measure on a Free Model Server
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Last week, my retry loop ate several minutes of wall time. Every call returned 429 . My worker waited one second, retried, and hit the throttle again. The model server never crashed. The queue never cleared. My own client was pressuring its own tickets. If you build on a free model server, you have…
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- 2026-08-28 23:50 · DEV Community — AI
429 Is Not a Failure: Five Retry Fallacies You Can Measure on a Free Model Server