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API Ingestion With Rate Limits

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You're building a pipeline that pulls data from an external API into your application and downstream data systems. The API is useful, but it has request quotas and may return throttling responses during busy periods.

Question

Describe a time you had to integrate a third-party API into your application. How did you handle rate limiting?