Everyone debates which rate-limit algorithm to use. That's almost never what causes the outage. T...Everyone debates which rate-limit algorithm to use. That's almost never what causes the outage. T...
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Everyone debates which rate-limit algorithm to use. That's almost never what causes the outage.
Token bucket or sliding window barely matters next to the bucket key. Key on IP and a whole office behind one NAT shares a budget. The limiter also has to run after auth, or you're throttling the wrong identity.
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