the.com/rate limiting
the bouncer that lets your requests in one polite line instead of a stampede.
means a system that caps how many requests a user or service can make in a given time window to prevent overload or abuse.
from born in networking and telecom, where operators throttled traffic to keep circuits from collapsing under demand; APIs inherited the same survival instinct.
http status429 means you got throttled
common algorithmtoken bucket, refills at a steady drip
security usestops brute-force logins and scraping