Patterns for consuming a throttled/rate limited external APIs?

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  • https://github.com/dotnet/reactive has a lot of different time related extensions for "events". Maybe you'll find something for yourself, if you google for rate limiting with reactive.

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  • If you have an explicit rate limit set by the API consumer, I'd combine this approach with a token bucket throttler - probably best to implement that as its own actor: https://github.com/Aaronontheweb/intro-to-akka.net-streams/blob/master/notebooks/lesson4-integration-with-actors.ipynb

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