Rate Limiting Done Right How GitHub Manages API Traffic

Lucas and Luna dive into GitHub's approach to API rate limiting — not as a blunt instrument, but as a design tool for reliability and developer experience. They walk through the numbers: 5,000 requests per hour for authenticated users, the sliding window algorithm, and how smart retry logic keeps developers from breaking upstream services. The hosts contrast GitHub's transparent limits with the opaque throttling at companies like Twitter, and discuss why rate limiting isn't about punishing developers but about protecting the whole system. If you've ever hit a 429 error and wondered why, this episode gives you the concrete reasoning behind those limits and how to work with them. #GitHub #RateLimiting #APIDesign #DeveloperExperience #RESTAPI #SlidingWindow #429Error #RetryLogic #Backoff #APIThrottling #WebAPIs #Technology #SoftwareEngineering #BackendDevelopment #APIReliability #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TheAPIPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo