Day 20 of #DistributedDilemmas: Distributed rate limiting is harder than it looks
Distributed rate limiting is harder than it looks. Local rate limits don't prevent global abuse. Global protection requires coordination mechanisms like…
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Local rate limits don’t prevent global abuse. Global protection requires coordination mechanisms like distributed token bucket algorithms, which balance burst handling with system-wide fairness.
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