Rate Limits
Design clients to limit concurrency and honor the throttling signals supplied by the service.
Use the quotas and operating thresholds assigned to your environment. Keep concurrency bounded so traffic remains stable below those limits.
Client Controls
- Bound request concurrency per environment and workload.
- Queue bursts instead of spawning unbounded parallel calls.
- Cache stable reference data only when the approved contract permits it.
- Separate interactive traffic from background or batch work.
- Monitor latency, error category, and request volume without logging secrets or sensitive payloads.
Conditional 429 Handling
If the service returns HTTP 429 and supplies a valid Retry-After header, delay that workload according to the header before a bounded retry. If no Retry-After guidance is supplied, use your approved bounded backoff policy and avoid synchronized retries.
This is defensive HTTP client behavior, not evidence that every Travel Insured endpoint returns 429 or Retry-After.
Load Testing
Do not run load or stress tests against any shared or production environment without written approval, an agreed traffic profile, monitoring contacts, and a stop condition.