Engineering Blog

Engineering: Client-Side Rate Limit Handling

Managing HTTP 429 status codes elegantly without middleware queuing logic.

Backoff Strategies in the Wild

When making concurrent requests across Anthropic and OpenAI directly from the client, sudden explosions of burst tokens will frequently trigger a 429 Too Many Requests wall.

Duplex leverages an Exponential Backoff recursion tree bounded to the client. We parse the `retry-after` header passively, alerting the user via non-blocking UI indicators, entirely avoiding locking the entire chat buffer for isolated endpoint failures.