Exa Reliability Patterns

Overview

Production reliability patterns for Exa neural search. Exa-specific failure modes include: empty result sets (query too narrow), content retrieval failures (sites block crawling), variable latency by search type, and 429 rate limits at 10 QPS default.

Instructions

Step 1: Query Fallback Chain

import Exa from "exa-js";

const exa = new Exa(process.env.EXA_API_KEY);