Rate Limit
Category: Infrastructure“RAYT LIM-it”
A cap on how many requests you may send to a service in a set time, so no single user can overload it.
Lesson #8: The Builder's Toolkit: Hooks, Plugins, APIs & SDKs →A metered on-ramp to the highway. Cars still get on, just a few at a time so traffic keeps moving.
A site makes you wait after five wrong password tries instead of letting you guess forever.
The pricing agent may check supplier prices 100 times an hour, so it batches its questions instead of asking constantly.
A nightly export is split into chunks because the accounting API allows only 1,000 records per minute.
Agents can fire thousands of requests without blinking, and hitting a rate limit silently breaks automations.
A rate limit caps how often you can call a service in a given window.
Look up the rate limit on one API your team uses, and compare it to how often your busiest automation runs.
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