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# API Best Practices and Use Cases

Review the following API best practices and use cases:

- [Best Practices to Prevent Rate-Limiting](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/marketing/marketing-cloud/guide/rate-limiting-best-practices.md)
- [Developer Community Integration Scenario](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/marketing/marketing-cloud/guide/developer_community_integration_scenario.md)
- [Developer Community Triggered Send Scenario](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/marketing/marketing-cloud/guide/developer_community_triggered_send_scenario.md)
- [Working with Triggered Emails in Email Studio](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/marketing/marketing-cloud/guide/triggered_email_scenario_guide_for_developers.md)
- [Optimize API Calls and Data Structures to Improve Performance](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/marketing/marketing-cloud/guide/sfmc_data_struct_and_api_call_optimzn.md)