2 posts tagged with "APIs"

Rate limiting is a deliberately blunt tool: instead of trying to make every request cheap, it accepts that some requests get turned away, so the system stays up for everyone else.

REST and GraphQL are two different answers to the same question: how should an API expose data to a client? The real decision isn't "which is more modern" — it's whether you're willing to give up free HTTP caching for a query language that fetches exactly what the client asks for.