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nickspeal / musicThisWeek

A Web Service that generates a Spotify playlist of bands that are playing in your area in the near future
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Handle Spotify rate limit throttling via authentication and retries #23

Open nickspeal opened 8 years ago

nickspeal commented 8 years ago

In order to scale, we need to be able to respond to Spotify's throttling. Right now this sometimes causes unit tests to fail.

More info: https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/user-guide/#rate-limiting

esmason commented 8 years ago

could we keep a pool of upcoming artists and tracks to choose from in the DB for popular locations?

nickspeal commented 8 years ago

Yep: #20 and #21