Architecture Patterns
Design a Rate Limiter
Rate limiters protect services from being overwhelmed by excessive requests, ensuring availability and preventing abuse by controlling the rate at which clients can access resources. They achieve this by tracking request counts and rejecting requests that exceed predefined thresholds.
Rate LimitingToken BucketLeaky BucketFixed Window CounterSliding Window LogRedisMemcachedAPI Gateway429 Too Many RequestsRetry-After Header
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