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Rate limiter
Watch a token bucket let requests in or turn them away. Change the limits and see what gets through.
How it works
- 1A token bucket holds a fixed number of tokens. Each request spends one. Tokens refill at a steady rate.
- 2If the bucket is empty, the request is rejected with 429 Too Many Requests. That keeps one noisy client from using up the whole server.
- 3The bucket size decides how big a burst you allow. The refill rate decides the long-run average.
Read the post: How to build an API for 100,000 requests a second
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