One API Key Turned the Gateway's Cooldown Into a 60-Second Blackout, and I Blamed the Vendor for Months
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Originally published on hexisteme notes . For about three months, I had a working theory about one leg of my model roster: the free tier was flaky. Every so often, a request routed through an NVIDIA NIM model would come back 503 . My client would retry on a one-second backoff, then a three-second b…
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- 2026-09-17 00:00 · DEV Community — AI
One API Key Turned the Gateway's Cooldown Into a 60-Second Blackout, and I Blamed the Vendor for Months