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API limits are why I drink.

Jokes aside, we use a proxy layer to throttle requests globally. Nginx + Lua scripts for dynamic rate limiting.

If you’re on AWS, API Gateway has built-in throttling. Not perfect, but better than nothing.

And yeah, always assume the API will hate you. Plan for it.