[hinkley]

Google’s spiders will punish you for giving them too many 429 responses. It’s hell for hosting sites with vanity urls. They can’t tell they’re sending you 50+ req/s.

It’s practically a protection racket. Only AWS gets the money.

[wbl]

50 requests/sec? Did you forget a few zeros?

[hinkley]

Little’s law is a bitch, and you can get away with a little throttling but not much.

Also, that’s a bit dismissive for HN.