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API security, rate limits, idempotency, and support

Integration hardening practices for production-safe API clients.

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Written by Max Valjan
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Production integrations should enforce strict credential handling, predictable retry rules, and idempotent client behavior where supported.

Security and access controls

  • Store credentials securely and rotate on incident or ownership changes.

  • Use least-privilege scopes/roles for integration identities.

  • Log request identifiers and error codes for traceable support escalation.

Rate-limit and idempotency guidance

  • Handle `429` responses with controlled retry delay and backoff.

  • Use idempotency keys where API workflows support them (for example chat send-message flows).

  • Treat duplicate-submission risk explicitly in client design for order/payment-adjacent actions.

Technical support expectations

  • Share endpoint, request ID, timestamp, and sanitized payload when reporting issues.

  • Include environment, expected behavior, and observed behavior in every ticket.

Good observability and deterministic retry behavior are the fastest path to stable integrations.

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