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One API Key Turned the Gateway's Cooldown Into a 60-Second Blackout, and I Blamed the Vendor for Months
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A single API key meant a routine upstream 5xx put the whole provider into a 60-second local blackout inside my own gateway, and for months I read the retries that always failed inside that window as proof the vendor itself was unreliable.
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