What does the error message you get state about your limits?

Thanks Jan. It says I made too many updates (or something to that effect in the message). It may be because I was passing too many empty files while testing my app. The error is no longer showing now thankfully.

Usually during development I got status 429 when I had a loop in my code that was constantly refetching data. When you get blocked with status 429, the blocked requests don't count to your api applications budget. So it's a differentmecganism than the daily budget. It's still possible to drain your budget with constant requests as long as they are not fast enough. If they get near constant for long enough, you get status 429 instead.

This makes a lot of sense. I probably had a loop in my code that once deleted no longer triggered the failure.