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Rate Limiting

API Rate Limiting

Restricting the number of API requests a client can make within a given time window.

Technical Detail

Rate Limiting APIs use HTTP methods as verbs: GET (read), POST (create), PUT (replace), PATCH (partial update), DELETE (remove). Resources are identified by URIs and represented in JSON. RESTful design requires statelessness — each request contains all information needed for processing. HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State) is the often-ignored constraint where responses include links to related actions, enabling API self-discovery.

Example

```javascript
// Rate Limiting example
const input = 'sample data';
const result = process(input);
console.log(result);
```

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