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Building reliable tennis systems.

Practical notes on live sports ingestion, quota-aware polling, scoring correctness, and the systems behind AceRank.

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Adaptive live-sports polling under a fixed API quota

How AceRank adjusts polling cadence, prioritizes live tennis matches, caps targeted requests, and keeps scoring idempotent without exposing provider credentials or user data.

August 26, 20268 minute read
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Adaptive cadence
Prioritized matches
Idempotent scoring