https://codeinstances.com/tags/api-development/ Recent content in Api Development on CodeInstances.com Hugo en-us Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://codeinstances.com/how-to-develop-against-a-metered-or-rate-limited-api-with-codeinstances/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://codeinstances.com/how-to-develop-against-a-metered-or-rate-limited-api-with-codeinstances/ <p>Some APIs you can&rsquo;t call as often as you&rsquo;d like. A payments sandbox that throttles you after a burst. A maps or weather API billed per request. A partner&rsquo;s staging server that falls over every afternoon. You&rsquo;re working on the part of your program that handles the answers (the formatting, the error messages, the retry logic), and each try means another call you&rsquo;d rather not make.</p> <p>Record the program once against the real API, and work against the recording for the rest of the day:</p>