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by rockostrich 817 days ago
I've found this happens with a lot of first party clients. At work, we use LaunchDarkly for feature flags and use their code references tool to keep track of where flags are being referenced. The tool uses their first party Go client to interact with the API but the client doesn't handle rate limiting at all even though they have rate limiting headers clearly documented for their API.
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First party clients are typically an afterthought, and you can't add features without getting a PM to sign off, which strangles the impulse to polish & sand down rough edges.
Agreed. Any in particular come to mind that you'd like to see improved?

(my company provides first-party clients with a lot of polish; maybe we could help)