Getting hit with status code: 429 - How do you handle rate limiting effectively? or Status code: 429

Man, status code: 429 is the *worst*. I feel your pain.

My go-to fix? Redis for caching. If you’re hitting the same endpoints repeatedly, cache the responses. Saves you from unnecessary requests and keeps you under the limit.

Also, check out the `retry-after` header—some APIs tell you exactly how long to wait. If they don’t, exponential backoff is your friend.

For tools, I swear by Postman’s built-in retry or Python’s `tenacity` library. Makes life easier.