Rate Limits Are Product Boundaries

Rate Limits Are Product Boundaries Rate Limits Are Product Boundaries is a system-design basic because architecture decisions become expensive when they are made as preferences instead of explicit trade-offs. Azure Cloud Design Patterns gives the team a vocabulary for turning vague pressure into observable constraints: who is affected, what must remain true, what can be stale or delayed, and what recovery path exists when the happy path fails. The important mechanism is not memorizing a pattern name. It is forcing the design to state the behavior it protects before selecting the technology that implements it. In practice, this means naming…

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