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2026-06-24 · 7 min
Why Your API Rate Limiter Is Costing You Real Traffic
Misconfigured rate limits don't just reject spam. They reject paying customers during traffic spikes, silently kill retries, and hide themselves behind generic 429 errors. Here's what actually happens when you measure it.
api designobservabilityrate limitingcustomer impact2026-06-03 · 8 min
Why Your Error Budget Is Lying to You (And How Observability Actually Fixes It)
Error budgets sound clean in theory but fail silently when you can't see where the unreliability actually is. Here's how to build observability that makes them real.
sreobservabilityerror budgetsreliability