Well, you do need, jitter, exponential backoff, caching, black and white listing, a stat base decision tree, etc. That's why it's a complicated and costly probl

Well, you do need, jitter, exponential backoff, caching, black and white listing, a stat base decision tree, etc. That's why it's a complicated and costly problem. But if you are consuming a lot of API content, if you have crawlers or if you provide features like "get article title/summary/image/thumbs", at some scale it's an important decision to make.