Rate Limiting
Why to Rate Limit? Rate Limiting is a crucial part of designing any API it maybe private or public. A rate limiter caps how many requests a sender can issue in a specific window of time. A rate limiter provides following features: Defense against a Denial of Service from malicious actors trying to pull down the service. Ensures the load on servers is always under maintainable state by discarding too many requests. Prevent broke developers from receiving an unexpectedly large bill in today’s auto scalable cloud service offerings. I can relate with you Max :’( ...