# Rate Limiting / User Experience

> "rate-limiting" (performance-core layer) is traded against "User Experience" (human-factors layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "User Experience" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:rate-limiting-user-experience`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-rate-limiting-user-experience

## tensions-with

- [Rate Limiting](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/rate-limiting.md)
- [User Experience](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/user-experience.md)