#rate-limiting

Taming the 9 AM Thundering Herd: A Layered Defense for Distributed Load Shaping

How client jitter, edge caching, rate limiting, and single-flight coalescing tame a 12,500 req/s spike

Rate Limiting Is a Security Feature, Not Just a Cost Control

Ask a developer why they added rate limiting and you’ll usually hear some version of “so one bad client can’t blow up our bill” or “so a…

How Rate Limiting Actually Works in Internal Architecture — Trade-offs and Bottlenecks Nobody Warns…

Rate limiting sounds simple until you have to build one that survives real production traffic across hundreds of internal services. Every…

Our Rate Limit Said 100 a Minute. Behind 50 Gateways, It Was 5,000.

The token bucket took an afternoon. Getting fifty machines to agree on one count took three rebuilds.

The Sliding Log Rate Limiter — Accurate, Expensive, and When It’s Worth It

Fintech needed exact “10 auths per 60 seconds” — token bucket wasn’t enough. The sliding log algorithm + Redis Lua atomic version.

Window(Interval) rate limiting algoritmlarini yozamiz !

Building a Reverse Proxy : My learnings

Discussed below are some of the concepts I explored while building a Reverse Proxy: Including proxies, load balancing, health checks, rate…

Your password-reset form is a free email cannon — Authagonal

The password-reset form is probably the least interesting endpoint you own. It is also the only one an attacker can point at anyone. Ours…

People Are Learning to Talk to AI Like Cavemen to Save Tokens

A Reddit trick for stretching your rate limit, and what it says about who’s adapting to whom.

Sliding Window Rate Limiting: Fixing the Redis Race Condition with Lua

A common approach to rate limiting in Spring Boot is checking a Redis counter and then incrementing it. However, under high concurrency…

API Rate Limiting: I Thought It Was Just Counting Requests

When I first read about API rate limiting, the idea looked pretty simple. Count requests. Set a limit. If someone crosses that limit…

Rate Limiting in System Design: The Invisible Guardrail That Keeps Your APIs Alive

Most applications work perfectly… until they don’t.

The Difference Between a Stable API and a Crashed API? Rate Limiting

Imagine you’ve just launched a successful SaaS platform.

How to Design a Distributed Rate Limiter

Objective

Mastering LLM Gateways in Production

Large Language Models (LLMs) have changed software forever.

Why Your API Gateway Should Know Nothing About Your Business Logic

Most backend teams start with a simple architecture.

Watching Resilience4j Earn Its Keep: A Spring Boot Lab You Can Actually Poke At

Most Resilience4j write-ups read like a feature tour. You get an annotation table, a YAML block, and a line that says “now your service is…

Research On No Rate Limit Issues

INTRODUCTION

Pentesting Rate Limits with Precision

Testing for rate limits can be incredibly frustrating when your primary tool feels like it’s holding you back. Burp Suite Intruder is a…

OSGi rate limiter inside Liferay DXP — Part 2: the implementation

In part one, a public regulatory platform was being crippled by four to five million anonymous requests a day, and we decided to build a…

Why Fixed Window Rate Limiting Is Broken (And How Sliding Window Fixes It)

Most rate-limiting tutorials start with the same algorithm:

Build a Production Rate Limiter for Your Python API From Scratch

If you’re not rate limiting, your API belongs to whoever hits it hardest.

Implementing Rate Limiting in Node.js + Express + TypeScript

Practical Guide

Building a Resilient Scraper for Quick-Commerce Product Data

When building a food product intelligence database, we needed to collect roughly 100,000 product pages across two major quick-commerce…

OSGi rate limiter inside Liferay DXP — Part 1: the incident, and why we built our own

For months, the official story was that we had a JVM memory problem. Nodes in the Liferay DXP cluster kept falling over, the Elasticsearch…

Claudiometro: a tiny always-on dashboard to monitor and schedule CC limits

How I stopped guessing my usage windows and started planning them

How Uber Conquered Database Overload: From Static Rate-Limiting to Intelligent Load Management

A static rate limit is a guess frozen in time; durable overload protection replaces the guess with a feedback loop — stop counting…

Rate Limiting Using Token Bucket Algorithm with Java & Spring Boot

Implementing production-grade request throttling for enterprise Spring Boot microservices.

Why Rate Limits Fail in Distributed DDoS Attacks?

There is often a significant gap between what security teams believe their DDoS protections are doing and how those protections behave…

Understanding Token Bucket Rate Limiting in APIs

Rate limiting is one of those backend topics that sounds simple at first — until your API starts receiving bursts of traffic, retries…

The Rate Limiting Problem No One Solved: Backpressure in Multi-Tenant AI Agent Systems

Microservices Interview Preparation— The Notes That Helped Me Stop Saying “I Don’t Know”

When I started giving interviews, I was comfortable with:

Token Bucket: A Rate Limiting Algorithm

We all have studied the Leaky Bucket technique while learning networking or system design. It’s one of the classic approaches used for…

Rate Limiting in JavaScript ( Express Rate Limit )

Protect Your APIs Before Traffic Becomes a Problem

Semaphore in Real World: ใช้ยังไงให้ระบบรอด ไม่ใช่แค่โค้ดรันได้

มีน้องคนหนึ่งมาถามผมใต้บทความเก่าเรื่อง Semaphore ใน Java

Token Bucket: .NET ile Rate Limiting’in Temel Algoritması

Yediğin meyve bile, toprağa ekildiği andan itibaren sana yazılı; sen hala doğru kişilerin seni bulup bulamayacağından şüphe ediyorsun.

Rate Limiting System Design: Complete Guide

Designing Rate Limiting Systems: From Basics to Distributed Architectures

The Law of the Late Limiter: The 4am Tax of APIs (How to Avoid It)

Every API pays this tax. The only question is when

Rate Limiters Are System Boundaries

Subtitle: Placement, state, capacity, and failure modes matter more than the algorithm.

🚦 Rate Limiting System Design (Complete Guide + Deep Dive on CDC & ZooKeeper)

Beginner-friendly, end-to-end explanation based on your diagram With clear flow, concepts, problems, and solutions

Architecting Resilient Systems: 20 Essential Concepts Through a .NET Lens — Part 2

Distribution & Communication — Consistent Hashing, Message Queues, Rate Limiting, API Gateway, Microservices Architecture

ratelimit-flex: Rate limiting that stays flexible when your stack does

Why rate limiting is harder than it looks

Rate Limiting: From Theory to Production with Spring Boot and Redis

WHY RATE LIMITING MATTERS

How to Design a Rate Limiter — System Design Interview Guide

“Design a rate limiter that allows 100 requests per minute per user.”

Rate Limiting Go APIs Without the Boilerplate

Every API you expose to the internet will eventually get hammered — by a misbehaving client, a retry loop gone wrong, or an actual attack…

The Security Guard of Scalability: Why Your System Needs Rate Limiting

1. What is Rate Limiting? (The Highway On-Ramp Analogy)

When yt-dlp Slows Down in the Cloud: Root Causes and Practical Fixes That Boost Real-World Speed

Many engineers find that YouTube downloads which run smoothly on a local machine suddenly crawl or stall in the cloud (VMs, containers)…

Rate Limiter vs Semaphore: Similar Goals, Very Different Problems

In high-traffic backend systems, protecting downstream services is not optional — it’s survival. Two commonly discussed mechanisms are…

Rate limiting nima ?

Assalamu Alaykum bugun biz System designdagi yana bir mavzu rate limiting nimaligi va u nimaga keraligi hamda qanaqa usullarda rate…

Rate Limiting in Web Applications: Bug That Pays Your Rent

Taming the flood before it drowns your system.