Restrictions on how many API requests can be made within a time period, requiring throttling and retry logic.
Rate limits restrict how many requests you can make in a short time window (per second/minute/hour). They prevent overload and abusive behaviour. Unlike quotas (which cap total usage), rate limits cap the speed of usage.
Retry-After)For marketing tools that call third-party APIs, rate-limit handling is essential to reliability - without it, user-facing tools will feel “randomly broken” under load.
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