Algolia Search API Rate Limit Retry‑After Header Behavior in Development vs Production
The goal is to understand whether the Retry‑After header returned by Algolia’s Search API when a 429 status is received can be used as a reliable signal for scheduling retries in a repeatable development workflow. Algolia enforces per‑application request quotas that differ by plan and are applied per minute. When the quota is exceeded, the API returns HTTP 4