Rate limiting
A control that caps how many requests a system will accept within a time window, protecting it from overload and enforcing fair usage.
In more detail
Rate limiting is how a service protects itself from being overwhelmed and enforces fair usage: it caps the number of requests any client may make in a given window and rejects or delays the excess. Nearly every serious API imposes rate limits, so any automation that calls them at volume has to live within those limits.
Automation that ignores rate limits gets throttled or temporarily blocked, which can stall a workflow or cascade into failures. Respecting limits means pacing requests, spreading them over time, batching where possible, and backing off when a limit is signaled rather than retrying immediately into the same wall.
Where this shows up at Ceven
Because Ceven orchestrates across 1,000+ tools at scale, it has to respect each system's rate limits, pacing and backing off rather than hammering an API into throttling the customer. That pacing keeps workflows running smoothly across many connected tools, and when a limit does slow a step, the handling is recorded in the audit trail.