Require that every API enforces rate limits and communicates them clearly, so I want defined quotas per consumer, standard headers that report remaining budget, and a proper 429 with a Retry-After when a limit is crossed. I treat rate limiting as basic self-defense, because it is what keeps one noisy or buggy client from degrading the experience for everyone else and what lets your platform scale predictably under load. Just as important, limits that are invisible are limits developers cannot design around, so I insist the contract tells consumers exactly what their budget is and how to back off gracefully. Enforce it at the gateway so the policy is uniform and hard to route around.
Rate Limiting (Operations)
Strategies
APIs Are Made Available Through a Platform Gateway
All APIs must be deployed through a common platform gateway established for the domain, line of business, or team, leveraging development, staging, and production environments, and a common set of ...
APIs Scale Efficiently Under Load
All APIs must be designed to scale efficiently as consumer traffic and data volumes grow, employing caching, pagination, filtering, and batch operations to ensure consistent performance and avoid d...
Experiences
Scalability
Scalability is the experience of an API continuing to work well as demand grows from dozens of consumers to millions of requests. It touches infrastructure, rate limiting, caching, and design decis...
Reliability
If an API isn’t reliable, consumers will eventually look for alternatives. Reliability starts with the platform and infrastructure where the API is deployed, but it also depends heavily on the pace...
Performance
Performance is the experience of how fast and consistently an API responds under real-world conditions. Latency, throughput, and predictability directly shape how consumers perceive an API and whet...
Lifecycle
tune Management Production
Management is the day-to-day operation of an API in production. Plans, rate limits, keys, and access all get administered here, usually through a gateway. Solid management is what lets me offer an ...
