Typically I use ratelimit (see below) to make sure I don't make outbound API calls too often, or soften processing bottlenecks in places where I don't control t

Typically I use ratelimit (see below) to make sure I don't make outbound API calls too often, or soften processing bottlenecks in places where I don't control the throughput completely. In Ruby, ratelimit (https://github.com/ejfinneran/ratelimit https://github.com/ejfinneran/ratelimit) works nicely and the limit is shared across processes, which is very convenient.