HTTP Status Codes Are a Contract
HTTP status codes are not UI signals. They are distributed-system control messages that shape retries, caching, observability, and automation behavior across boundaries.
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Rate Limiting Is Not a Counter. It Is a Real-Time Governance System.
Rate limiting looks like arithmetic in tutorials, but in production it allocates scarce capacity, encodes fairness assumptions, and shapes client behavior under stress.