Categories
DevOps

Implementing 429 retries and throttling for API rate-limits

This is a cracking article/tutorial about how to handle requests made to a third party API that is rate limited. Learn how to handle 429 Too Many Requests responses when consuming 3rd party APIs. — Read on www.useanvil.com/blog/engineering/throttling-and-consuming-apis-with-429-rate-limits/

Categories
DevOps

Connecting to MongoDb from Heroku after deployment

I have a little node script which checks the holdings of some vaults every day and writes them to a MongoDb cluster. This was an improvement over manually adding the value of each item every day into a Google Sheet because It takes 5 minutes to do everyday, so that’s 35 minutes a week, or […]

Categories
Links

Intern: Software testing for humans

A node.js package that will allow you to write tests easily and perform tests on the command line, in your browser or offload it to something like BrowserStack Visit Link