The Retry Loop That Ate a Free Tier: A Rate-Limit Postmortem
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The webhook handler passed every local test, deployed cleanly, and then took down the free server at 2:14 AM. The symptom looked like a provider quota problem, but the root cause was a single AI-generated loop that retried too eagerly. This post walks through the debugging path from the first 429 t…
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- 2026-08-25 08:30 · DEV Community — AI
The Retry Loop That Ate a Free Tier: A Rate-Limit Postmortem