Saturday, August 6, 2016

The idea behind the rate limits

Dear contestants,

You might have been feeling uncomfortable with the rate limits on the APIs. Well, we would like to support your efforts till the very end of the contest. We don't prefer to promise you optimistic rates and betray your expectations at the last moment of the contest, when you are in the final rush and need the server stability the most. We have prepared computer resources that are able to serve at these rates under any foreseeable circumstances in the future. Of course, unexpected things happen, but we have recovered from one of such cases.

We will do our best in keeping up the servers, so please enjoy the contest, and please find out the most blessed origami possible!

Meanwhile, here are some tips:

  • Cache your blob lookup results.
  • Take record of the best solution you have submitted and its resemblance to each problem, and postpone new submissions until you have made improvements.