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		hinkley 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hyrum’s Law in Golang Google’s spiders will punish you for giving them too many 429 responses. It’s hell for hosting sites with vanity urls. They can’t tell they’re sending you 50+ req/s. It’s practically a protection racket. Only AWS gets the money.

wbl 6 days ago [–]

50 requests/sec? Did you forget a few zeros?

hinkley 6 days ago | [–]

Little’s law is a bitch, and you can get away with a little throttling but not much.

Also, that’s a bit dismissive for HN.

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