but they are not getting paid for an api call, they are getting paid for success...

zeisss on March 30, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scaling your API with rate limiters

but they are not getting paid for an api call, they are getting paid for successful transactions going through their api. And if I can hammer the API with useless unworthy listing calls while big-customer cannot initialize transactions they are losing money.