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I am researching rate limiting and encountered those two strategies: leaky bucket and token bucket. After reading several articles these strategies seem the same too me, but all articles are ...
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We currently have 3 Spring boot applications (with multiple instances across machines each) that communicate with an API via HTTP that is not in our hands. This API has a limit on a per-day as well as ...
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Let’s say a person can set a limit to play a game for N minutes a day. The player may increase their limit, but the increase doesn’t take effect until the next day. Example, person sets a limit of 10 ...
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I have a producer that generates a batch job that consists of multiple operations (approx. 100 - 10000). These operations can be processed in any order, ideally as fast as possible. The processing of ...
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I am designing rate limiting in my application in which the rules can be dynamic. I have a basic design in which every request is validated against the rate limiting quota, which is stored in redis. ...
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I have 1 api key that has a rate limit 1000req/1min. I would like to somehow use 50% of that limit in service 1 and 50% of that limit in service 2. Let's say they're just 2 separate processes using ...
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I have a project where there's an external API which implements throttling. Roughly speaking, I'm allowed to perform N requests per minute. I also have a message queue (Apache Kafka) whose consumers ...
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Let's assume we have a use case where ServiceA needs to make several calls to ServiceB. I know it would be best if the calls could be consolidated as one request, but let's say that's just not ...
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Information given here adequately explains the "Stateless" nature of REST. Even going as far as to say: For becoming stateless, do not store even authentication/authorization details of ...
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wasted requests not enough time for those requests | | | | (1) |-x--x-----------------x----x--x--x| x x (executing ...
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I have an REST API, which has a rate limit of 1 query per IP per 5 seconds. When the user tries to call the API too often, I respond with the HTTP status code 429 Too Many Requests and a JSON message. ...
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I came up with an model to reduce DoS and DDoS attacks and would like your input on its effectiveness... Basically, once a request reaches our servers without having a valid key, we add a key as a ...
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Say we have a load balancer that also does rate limiting. Rate limiting seems pretty straightforward for logged-in users - just look at the JWT and maybe use an in-memory data-store to see how many ...
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I'm having some problems to think on a solution to control the amount of requests by minute to a external system on a micro services environment on Kubernetes. The scenario This external system is ...
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