Rate Limiting

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API Rate Limiting

Controlling how many requests a client can make in a time window to protect API capacity, ensure fair use, and defend against abuse, using algorithms like token bucket.

Patterns2

Pattern

Rate Limiter

Caps how many requests a client or system may make in a time window, protecting services from overload, abuse, and runaway cost.

Pattern

Token Bucket (Rate Limiting)

A rate-limiting algorithm where requests consume tokens refilled at a steady rate, allowing controlled bursts while capping the long-run request rate.

Tutorials1

Tutorial

How to Add Rate Limiting to an API

Protect an API with token-bucket rate limiting, return standard rate-limit headers, and share limits across instances with Redis.

FAQs1

FAQ

What is rate limiting and how does it work?

Rate limiting caps how many requests a client may make in a given window to protect a service from overload, abuse, and runaway costs. Common algorith...

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Glossary

Rate Limiting

Rate limiting is a technique that caps how many requests a client may make to a service within a time window, protecting capacity and enforcing fair usage.