Claude API Rate-Limit Storm Playbook: Adaptive Concurrency, Jittered Backoff, and Quota Isolation

When Claude API starts returning 429 under high load, most systems don’t just slow down—they collapse: queue buildup, retry storms, upstream timeout chains, and pager noise. ...

April 3, 2026 · 3 min · mengboy

Handling OpenAI 429/5xx Storms in Go: Token Bucket, Exponential Backoff, and Circuit Breakers

Most Go teams are not killed by a single API error. They are killed by a retry storm they created themselves. ...

March 18, 2026 · 3 min · mengboy