marketplace-rate-limiting

Handle VTEX API 429 throttling errors by implementing exponential backoff with jitter and respecting the Retry-After header. This prevents retry storms during burst traffic catalog syncs, ensuring requests queue safely without draining burst credits.

Exponential backoff with jitter for rate limiting replaces immediate retries with randomized exponential delays. This mechanism avoids retry storms and burst-credit drain when a marketplace API throttles requests and returns 429 responses.

Use Retry-After and X-RateLimit headers for VTEX request queues by enforcing wait times based on the maximum of the server-provided value versus calculated backoff. Monitor X-RateLimit-Remaining and X-RateLimit-Reset to proactively throttle traffic.

Yes, you can add a circuit breaker to prevent VTEX marketplace API downtime. Circuit breakers, combined with request queues and header-aware delays, provide high availability resilience patterns during burst traffic and throttling.

Yes, this rate limiting approach works for order processing and fulfillment operations. The retry behavior and backpressure mechanisms apply to any VTEX marketplace API calls reacting to 429 responses, including price, inventory, and fulfillment updates.

Immediate VTEX API retries cause retry storms under throttling because they rapidly drain burst credits and trigger further 429 responses. Applying randomized exponential backoff with jitter avoids tight retry loops and stabilizes request throughput.