🔥Let’s Do DevOps: Building an API Token Expired Circuit Breaker

Kyler Middleton
5 min readApr 17, 2023

This blog series focuses on presenting complex DevOps projects as simple and approachable via plain language and lots of pictures. You can do it!

Hey all!

I recently had to create 60k auto-link references in Jira (link to the story), and I immediately ran into an issue — a GitHub PAT (Personal Access Token) is given 5,000 “tokens” per hour. A “token” is a budget of the API calls that can be issued to the server which will be honored. More than that will fail.

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Kyler Middleton

DevNetSecOps, DevRel, cloud security chick. I will teach you, it’s unavoidable. She/Her 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈, INFJ-A, support the EFF!