Rate-Limiting and Backoff Patterns for MCP Servers That Don't Fall Over Under Load
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A team I talked with last quarter had an agent stuck in a loop calling the same tool for eight hours. By the time someone noticed, it had run up a five-figure cloud bill. That's not a hypothetical — a runaway automation loop making 127,000 API calls in roughly 8 hours has been reported to cost arou…
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- 2026-09-30 20:45 · DEV Community — AI
Rate-Limiting and Backoff Patterns for MCP Servers That Don't Fall Over Under Load