Rate Limiting
Rate Limiting
- What and why
- Token bucket algorithm
- Implementation
- Usage
Shall we retry?
Or wait?
Will our users wait?
Return a cached value?
Problem space - Throttling API
One bad client ruins it for everyone :(
Problem space - DoS attack
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Problem space - Long-running data migration
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Unresponsive
application
Solution space - taking control
Problem space - Throttling API
Problem space - DoS attack
Problem space - Long-running data migration
