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Most outages aren't caused by exotic failure modes. They happen because a configuration change was applied to production before staging, a retry loop overwhelmed a downstream service, or a migration ran without a rollback plan.

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Rate limiting protects your API from both accidental and intentional overuse. A well-designed rate limiter communicates its limits clearly through response headers, returns meaningful error messages when the limit is reached, and uses a sliding window algorithm to avoid the thundering herd problem that fixed-window approaches can cause at interval boundaries.

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Billing is calculated at the end of each calendar month based on your peak active connections during that period. Charges appear on your invoice within 3 business days of month close. For questions about your bill, contact billing support.