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Day 15 · ~11 min●

Six lessons covered: requests.get/post with timeouts, rate-limit header parsing, adaptive backoff thresholds, secrets via os.environ, per-environment config dicts, and API version pinning + dual-shape handling.

Week 3 = observability and long-running. Eight questions, 80% to pass.

What week 2 covered

Lesson	Concept	Key syntax
8	Direct HTTP	`requests.get(url, timeout=10)` + `r.json()`
9	Rate-limit headers	`int(r.headers.get("X-RateLimit-Remaining", 0))`
10	Adaptive backoff	threshold-based `time.sleep(t)` between calls
11	Secrets	`os.environ.get("API_KEY")` — never print value
12	Per-env config	`CONFIGS[env]` with safe-default `"dev"`
13	API versioning	pin via header + handle both shapes

Week 3 = JSON logs, metrics, threshold alerts, long-running with status, queue-style processing, full synthesis.

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Day 15 · ~11 min●

Week 3 = observability and long-running. Eight questions, 80% to pass.

What week 2 covered

Lesson	Concept	Key syntax
8	Direct HTTP	`requests.get(url, timeout=10)` + `r.json()`
9	Rate-limit headers	`int(r.headers.get("X-RateLimit-Remaining", 0))`
10	Adaptive backoff	threshold-based `time.sleep(t)` between calls
11	Secrets	`os.environ.get("API_KEY")` — never print value
12	Per-env config	`CONFIGS[env]` with safe-default `"dev"`
13	API versioning	pin via header + handle both shapes

Week 3 = JSON logs, metrics, threshold alerts, long-running with status, queue-style processing, full synthesis.

What week 2 covered

Lesson	Concept	Key syntax
8	Direct HTTP	`requests.get(url, timeout=10)` + `r.json()`
9	Rate-limit headers	`int(r.headers.get("X-RateLimit-Remaining", 0))`
10	Adaptive backoff	threshold-based `time.sleep(t)` between calls
11	Secrets	`os.environ.get("API_KEY")` — never print value
12	Per-env config	`CONFIGS[env]` with safe-default `"dev"`
13	API versioning	pin via header + handle both shapes

Week 3 = JSON logs, metrics, threshold alerts, long-running with status, queue-style processing, full synthesis.

What week 2 covered

Lesson	Concept	Key syntax
8	Direct HTTP	`requests.get(url, timeout=10)` + `r.json()`
9	Rate-limit headers	`int(r.headers.get("X-RateLimit-Remaining", 0))`
10	Adaptive backoff	threshold-based `time.sleep(t)` between calls
11	Secrets	`os.environ.get("API_KEY")` — never print value
12	Per-env config	`CONFIGS[env]` with safe-default `"dev"`
13	API versioning	pin via header + handle both shapes

Week 3 = JSON logs, metrics, threshold alerts, long-running with status, queue-style processing, full synthesis.