Your product calls thirty third-party APIs, each with its own rate limits and quotas. Design the integration layer.

Vendor limits are a shared budget your own teams will fight over. Broker the capacity, degrade by priority lane, and never let feature code see vendor HTTP semantics.

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Vendor limits are a shared budget your own teams will fight over. Broker the capacity, degrade by priority lane, and never let feature code see vendor HTTP semantics.

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