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If there is no throttling, there could be a dozen requests, with different responses arriving in arbitrary order. Which one do you believe to determine the outc
by mbell 12y ago
If there is no throttling, there could be a dozen requests, with different responses arriving in arbitrary order. Which one do you believe to determine the outcome of the operation? How long do you wait for responses? etc. etc. If your going to build all the machinery in the client to deal with this situation, it's much easier to just throttle.
- scrollaway 12y agoI'm not saying "don't throttle". I'm just saying tokens can work pretty well too...