API Rate Limits, Retries, and Timeouts: Build for Failure
Plan API rate limits, deadlines, retries, and idempotency together so your integration handles failures without duplicate work or uncontrolled recovery traffic.
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Reliability
Reliability concerns how an integration behaves across expected success and foreseeable failure. Define deadlines, recovery decisions, and observable signals for the workflow rather than assuming that every request completes normally.
Use the field notes below to connect reliability with the decisions in your own integration. Begin with a concrete task and the questions you need to answer; note the assumptions that still require confirmation in the provider’s documentation. Each guide provides a distinct explanation, practical examples, and an official source for further reading.
Field notes about Reliability
Keep the wider workflow in view: explore the API directory, compare your options with the evaluation guide, or follow the developer workflow to move from a documented capability to a useful first request.