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
Trying again after a failure.
Reasonable for 5xx errors and network failures, pointless for 4xx. Must be paired with increasing delays and with idempotency, or it turns a lost response into a duplicate action.
See also Idempotency, Exponential backoff, Status code