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Module 5 of 6Lesson 1 of 3~15 min

Pagination and rate limits

Lesson 1 of the module "An integration that lasts" in the course "Design and test an API integration as a PM".

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Lesson objective

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to read how an API paginates its lists and limits the number of requests, estimate the number of calls and the duration of a synchronization, and specify the integration's behavior when a limit is reached.

Where it fits

An integration that lasts

How does the integration withstand large volumes, limits, outages, duplicates and new versions?

Lessons in this module

  1. Pagination and rate limits (this lesson)
  2. Webhooks and idempotency, with no duplicates and no lost events
  3. Sandbox, production, versions and deprecations

What you will learn in the course

This lesson is part of the course Design and test an API integration as a PM

  • Read a REST API's documentation (resources, endpoints, methods, parameters, JSON bodies, OpenAPI description) and extract what the integration needs.
  • Send, save and test requests in Postman or Bruno (collection, environments, variables, assertions) to check an API's real behavior.
  • Interpret status codes and error responses, and decide the product behavior (fix, retry, alert, inform the user).
  • Choose and specify the authentication method (API key, token, OAuth 2.0), the minimal permissions and the rules for managing secrets.
  • Specify pagination, rate-limit handling, webhooks and idempotency for an integration that withstands volumes, outages and duplicates.
  • Plan environments (sandbox, production), versions, breaking changes and deprecations in the spec and the test plan.
  • Write a complete integration spec, with a collection of tested requests, ready to be estimated by the team.

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