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I Stopped Trusting "Real-Time" Claims After One Bad Quarter. Here's the 100-Call Test I Run Instead.

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A few years ago I integrated an Amazon data provider into a pricing service. The sales page said "real-time data". The docs said "high success rate". Both were technically true and both were useless. What I eventually learned: the pricing service was reading from a cache refreshed once a day, and "…

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  1. 2026-09-01 03:32 · DEV Community — AI
    I Stopped Trusting "Real-Time" Claims After One Bad Quarter. Here's the 100-Call Test I Run Instead.

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