Basic Rate Limit Concepts
Learn fundamental terms like request quotas, time windows, and the impact of exceeding defined limits on API consumers.
Welcome to Rate Limit Basics
Let's learn the vocabulary of rate limiting: request quotas, time windows, and what happens when a client sends too many requests.
What's a Request Quota?
A request quota is the max number of requests an API lets you make — the how many of a rate limit, protecting the API from overload.
All lessons in this course
- What is API Rate Limiting?
- Why Rate Limiting is Crucial
- Basic Rate Limit Concepts
- Communicating Limits to API Clients