Blog posts tagged with 'ratelimit':



Throttle your API calls: RateLimitBundle

Date: 28 May 2014
Tags: [ api ]  [ bundle ]  [ http ]  [ PHP ]  [ ratelimit ]  [ symfony2

A web application is not complete without an API nowadays. APIs allow third parties - or just end users - to use the data from the platform for whatever they want. But by allowing applications to make automated calls to your API can result quickly in our systems overloading. Too many times third party applications will be polling your API when they don’t really need too, and maybe you can lighten the load a bit with some heavy-duty caching, but in essence you want that every API call made matters.

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