Rate limits are the best design document you never wrote
증상
Every system I build starts with intentions. What I want it to do, how I want it to behave, what the output should look like. Then I hit the constraints — API rate limits, daily caps, scheduled windows, token budgets — and the system I actually end up with looks nothing like the one I planned.
원인
you could, not because you should.
해결법
Rate Limit 실전 대응
- Retry-After 헤더 파싱:
if response.status == 429: wait = int(response.headers.get('Retry-After', 60)) time.sleep(wait) - 지수 백오프 + 지터 구현:
import random delay = min(2 ** attempt + random.uniform(0, 1), 120) - 요청 큐잉:
asyncio.Semaphore(10)으로 동시 요청 수 제한 - 사용량 추적: API 응답의
x-ratelimit-remaining헤더 모니터링 - 대체 provider: 한 provider가 429면 다른 provider로 자동 전환
참고
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