Posts tagged #reliability

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June 26, 2026 · 4 min read

Public RPC vs Paid RPC: Latency, Reliability, and Limits

Free public RPC endpoints are perfect for learning and prototyping — and a liability in production. Here's the honest breakdown of where public RPC bites you (rate limits, downtime, deprecation, stale blocks, missing methods) and when paying for an endpoint actually earns its keep.

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June 21, 2026 · 6 min read

Retrying RPC Calls: Backoff, Idempotency, Failover

A naive retry loop turns a brief blip into an outage. Here's how to retry RPC calls correctly: exponential backoff with jitter, knowing which calls are safe to retry, and failing over across providers — with copy-paste examples in viem, ethers, and web3.py.

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