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Retrieving stuff from the web is unreliable. Airbud adds retries for production, and fixture support for test.

I was writing internal documentation on how I set up automated language checking at Transloadit. Halfway through, I thought this could be useful to the rest of the world :earth_americas: as well, so I rewrote it in a more generic fashion. I'll attempt to first give a high-level overview of the problem, then I will drive all the way down to the low-level nuts & bolts of solving it. I hope you'll enjoy, here goes!

It's been a while since I've mentioned tus, but there have been some cool developments so we'd like to refresh your memory.

Ratestate is a ratelimiter in the form of a [Node.js module](https://npmjs.org/package/ratestate) that can transmit states of different entities while avoiding transmitting the same state twice, and adhering to a global speed limit.

Some people feel that shipping .json / .yml / .xml config files is an upgrade over using archaic environment variables.