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If you hit a rate limit, the marginal portion of requests exceeding that limit is dropped: if you plot the requests, the graph gets clipped. Bad, but not catast
by howlgarnish 6y ago
If you hit a rate limit, the marginal portion of requests exceeding that limit is dropped: if you plot the requests, the graph gets clipped. Bad, but not catastrophic.
If you hit a billing limit, everything beyond that point is dropped, and the graph of requests plunges to zero. You're effectively hard down in prod.
- freemint 6y agoJust as it is with bank accounts. Once you run out of money you hit a hard floor.
- franciscop 6y agoAnd for some companies/individuals, if you keep charging then THEY will plunge to a large negative debt. It's not even zero, it's a lot worse than that.