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Shopify Engineering·Jun 22, 2021·8 min read53

Rate Limiting GraphQL APIs by Calculating Query Complexity - Shopify

GraphQL opens new possibilities for rate limiting. I’ll show you Shopify’s rate limiting system for the GraphQL Admin API and how it addresses some limitations of common methods commonly used in REST APIs.

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