Exa Reliability Patterns

Overview

Production reliability patterns for Exa neural search integrations. Exa's search-focused API has unique failure modes: query relevance degradation, empty result sets, and variable response times based on query complexity.

Prerequisites

• Exa API configured
• Caching infrastructure (Redis recommended)
• Understanding of search quality metrics

Instructions

Step 1: Cache Search Results with TTL

Search results for the same query are stable over short periods. Caching reduces API calls and latency.

import hashlib, json, time

class ExaSearchCache: