I use Oban to make external API requests every N minutes. It’s turned out that the frequnecy I use it with is too dense such that it’ll cause an error “too many requests” from API, as there’s a limit there.

How would I properly adjust my requests? I could a) incease N b) insert a few Process.sleep(10_000) inside the code that makes the requests.

An issue with (a) is that as my DB grows, it’ll have to be increasing N too, doing it by trial and error.

An issue with (b) is that the next iteration of Oban.perform(...) may coincide as the current one is getting executed, if Process.sleep(M) is too large. Otherwise, it may cause an API limit exceeded error.

How to do this properly? And in a simple manner too.