Design an API Rate Limiter
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If you are deploying an API, it is generally a best practice to have a relatively small rate limit for anonymous access and then force users to log in to obtain a higher rate limit.
Clarifications
| Name | Summary |
|---|---|
| A free tier or a premium tier | |
| Limit per count or per user | |
| Limit in client side or server side |
Key Parts
| Name | Example |
|---|---|
| 3 Directions Of Implementing API rate-limiting | Request Queues; Throttling; Rate-limiting Algorithms |
| Rate-limiting Algorithms | Leaky Bucket; Fixed Window; Sliding Log; Sliding Window |
| Reference | Link: Rate Limiting Part 1, Link: Rate Limiting Part 2 |
| Reference | Link: Rate-limiting strategies and techniques |
| Reference | Github: simple-rate-limiters wikipedia: Rate limiting |
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