Does any one have a suggestion or best practice on api that has a rate-limiting? I think 500 hits per hour per endpoint

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but we use something called exponential backoff to automatically regulate how many calls we make: https://bpaulino.com/entries/retrying-api-calls-with-exponential-backoff

There are some implementations in the wild, like https://github.com/MeltanoLabs/tap-stackexchange/blob/0bde20d6fd0d09fcdc7d87ef2f10d66c2b5da39d/tap_stackexchange/client.py#L29-L62 (disclaimer: it's my implementation 😅)

Thank you for sharing this. 😆