Rate Limiting
Token bucket, leaky bucket and sliding-window limiters.
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Case Studies
- Cloud Bouncer: Distributed Rate Limiting at YahooMost platforms at Yahoo serve dozens of Yahoo Properties and Apps at any given time (think Mail, Finance, Flickr etc.) and are operated as multi-tenant services on shared infrastructure for cost efficiency and on demand elasticity. As such, platforms need to protect against applications exceeding quotas,…Yahoo
- Distributed Rate Limiting at AllegroIn our services ecosystem it’s usually the case that services can handle a limited amount of requests per second. We show how we introduced a new algorithm for our publish-subscribe queue system. The road to production deployment highlights some key distributed systems’ takeaways we’d like to discuss.Allegro
- How we built rate limiting capable of scaling to millions of domainsA sliding-window counter running at the edge, with measurements of how accurate the approximation is.Cloudflare
- Quotas Service at GrabReliable, scalable, and high performing solutions for common system level issues are essential for microservice success, and there is a Grab-wide initiative ...Grab
- Rate LimitingRate limiting is used to control the amount of incoming and outgoing traffic to or from a network. Learn more rate limiting methods and how to use them.Keycdn
- Ratequeue: Core Queueing-And-Rate-Limiting System at TwilioLearn about Ratequeue, a service Twilio uses as part of its chaos engineering efforts to improve platform resilience.Twilio
- Unthrottled: Fixing CPU Limits in the Cloud (2 parts) at IndeedWe solved a CPU throttling issue that affects nearly every container orchestrator with hard limits, including Kubernetes, Docker, and Mesos. %Indeed
Blogs
- Google SRE Book: Handling OverloadClient-side throttling, per-client quotas and criticality levels for staying up when demand exceeds capacity.Google
- Rate Limiting with NGINXConfiguring request limits and bursts in NGINX with the leaky-bucket model.F5 / NGINX
- Timeouts, retries, and backoff with jitterWhy retries can make an outage worse, and how timeouts, capped retries and random jitter prevent retry storms.Amazon Web Services
- Using load shedding to avoid overloadHow to reject excess work early and fairly so a service stays healthy under a surge.Amazon Web Services
- Amazon Builders' LibraryHow Amazon builds reliable systems: timeouts, retries, backoff, load shedding.Amazon Web Services
- Scaling Your API with Rate LimitersStripe's practical guide to request, concurrency and load-shedding limiters.Stripe