Our rate limit punished everyone except the customer causing the problem
At twenty past two on a Tuesday morning one customer began a historical backfill against our API. Within ten minutes a hundred and twelve other cust…
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Why Your Server Needs a Speed Limit: The Power of Rate Limiting
Rate limiting is a critical architectural pattern that controls how often a user or a computer program can send requests to a server. Think of a req…
A Rate Limiter That Knows Who's Calling
ASP.NET Core's rate limiter partitions however you key it. Key it on the caller, and one client's burst stops being every other client's problem. I…
The 40x Traffic Spike From One Partner: What Token-Bucket Rate Limiting Actually Buys You
One of our integration partners pushed a firmware update to their fleet of devices, and every device in that fleet decided to sync at once. Our API…
Rate Limits & Anti-Bots in Agentic Scraping
TL;DR Agentic web scraping workflows handle rate limits and anti-bot challenge pages by implementing exponential backoff with jitter, distributing r…