Handling an API with a throttle?

[DAVID HODGKINSON]

That looks very plausible.

The unpaid version of the API I'm calling is 2/second and 5000/day. 

Doing a backoff of a request fails isn't really the end of the world
until we get funded :)


On 14 Apr 2013, at 00:21, Pierre M <piemas25 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I found this: https://metacpan.org/module/Schedule::AdaptiveThrottler
> 
> If you use it, please feedback: i might use it in the future.
> 
> On 13 April 2013 23:05, DAVID HODGKINSON <davehodg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Opposite direction, making calls to an external API...
>> 
>> 
>> On 13 Apr 2013, at 22:57, Schmoo <schmooster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Do you mean something like these?
>>> 
>>> https://metacpan.org/module/App::Cerberus#App::Cerberus::Plugin::Throttle
>>> https://metacpan.org/module/Plack::Middleware::Throttle
>>> https://metacpan.org/module/IO::Lambda::Throttle
>>> 
>>> Gaz
>>> 
>>> On 13 April 2013 22:32, Dave Hodgkinson <daveh at hodgkinson.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Any nice tricks for this? Calling this from a web app, although
>>>> I don't have to.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm assuming the "right" answer is some form queue with a daemon
>>>> plucking requests off.
>>>> 
>>>> Any other useful suggestions?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>