On April 30 10:00am UTC, our production infrastructure faced a critical failure due to unhandled rate limiting in our scraping systems. This resulted in all API endpoints returning HTTP 500 errors with no data being served.
For two full days (April 30 to May 2), our API was completely unavailable.
On May 2, we deployed a degraded mode: only the most valuable portion of the data (approximately one-third of the usual results) was returned through fallback logic. While this helped partially re...