A Guide to Respectful API Back-Off Strategies
Blog post from Deepgram
Deepgram API integrations can encounter HTTP 429 errors when applications exceed request-rate limits, signaling that requests should be slowed to protect shared service capacity and avoid disruptions or temporary API-key blocks. The guidance explains how Node.js and Python applications can identify 429 responses, retry requests with exponential delays that increase after each failure, and set maximum retry limits while handling other HTTP errors separately. It also recommends adding randomized jitter to retry delays to prevent many application instances from retrying simultaneously, dynamically optimizing request rates when rate-limit information is available, and logging API usage and 429 incidents to improve application behavior over time.
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