Dependency Rate-Limit Exhaustion

The Aggregation Service calls a third-party provider that enforces a hard request quota on a rolling 10-minute window — once the quota is gone for that window, every call fails until it resets. The provider relationship is commercial and the quota cannot be raised mid-incident. Multiple product surfaces depend on this call path, and one of them is an optional enrichment feature rather than a core one. Bring the dependency's call volume to a level the remaining quota can sustain for the rest of the window, without assuming that retrying a failed call is free.

Difficulty

Senior

Expected Time

~15 min

Category

Microservices & Dependencies