I Hit a 429 Before I Got a Bill — Managing Gemini API Limits in Spring Boot

I didn't get a surprise bill. I got a 429. Requests started failing. The app was returning errors instead of responses. I opened the Gemini AI Studio rate limit page and saw it — quota exhausted. I'd burned through my daily request limit without realising it. That's when I understood that token usage isn't abstract. It's a real counter ticking up... Weiterlesen: I Hit a 429 Before I Got a Bill — Managing Gemini API Limits in Sprin…