How I Cut Our Shopify API Usage in Half (Without Losing Features) (opens in new tab)

If you build on Shopify long enough, you hit the wall. Throttled requests. Stalled inventory syncs. Webhook backlogs piling up during a flash sale. Shopify does not charge you per call in dollars. It charges you in rate limits. Blow through them and your app slows to a crawl. The real cost shows up as engineering time, infrastructure bills, and lost sales from stale data. Here is what actually moved the needle for us. First, know what you are paying for Shopify uses two rate-limiting models d...