API Gateway Rate Limiting Best Practices for Production Systems
Distributed rate limiting with Redis at scale
Feb 13, 20269 min read
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API Rate Limiting: Token Bucket vs Sliding Window
Distributed rate limiting with Redis and consistent hashing
Feb 13, 20268 min readExpress Rate Limiting: DDoS Protection
Why Traditional Rate Limiting Fails in Modern Architectures The conventional approach of implementing rate limiting with in-memory stores like express-rate-limit with default MemoryStore worked adequately when applications ran on single servers. In 2...
Feb 12, 20269 min readRate Limiting: Token Bucket Implementation
Why Token Bucket Rate Limiting Dominates Modern API Design Token bucket rate limiting solves the fundamental tension between strict rate enforcement and accommodating legitimate traffic bursts. The algorithm maintains a bucket that fills with tokens ...
Feb 12, 202611 min readRate Limiting: Sliding Window Counter Algorithm
Why Traditional Rate Limiting Approaches Fail at Scale Fixed window counters, the most common rate limiting implementation, create exploitable vulnerabilities in production environments. A fixed window resets all counters at predetermined intervals—t...
Feb 12, 202611 min readAPI Rate Limiting Headers: X-RateLimit Standards
Why Traditional Rate Limiting Communication Fails Most APIs still return bare 429 responses with generic error messages like "Rate limit exceeded" or "Too many requests." This approach worked when APIs served dozens of requests per second from known ...
Feb 12, 202610 min read2