Glossary
Every term the courses use, defined in one line and then in a paragraph. Written to be read out of order.
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A cap on how often you may call something.
A restriction on request frequency, signalled by a 429 status. Exists to keep one caller from consuming a shared service. Respect it by backing off rather than retrying immediately.
See also Status code, Retry, Exponential backoff
An API style organised around things.
Endpoints named after resources (/users, /orders) with HTTP verbs saying what to do to them. Highly cacheable and easy to inspect. A rich screen may need several calls.
Putting the previous version back.
The cheapest available response to a bad deploy and the correct first move in most incidents. Restores your code, not your data: deleted rows and sent emails do not come back.