Rate Limiting Algorithm

Moises Gamio
Science x Engineering
6 min readFeb 2, 2023

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A rate-limiting system controls the rate of traffic sent or received on a network interface. APIs will use rate-limiting techniques to control how often application Clients can call an API endpoint during a given time interval. Traffic is allowed up to one specified rate, whereas traffic that exceeds that rate is denied — HTTP code 429.

Reasons to implement a rate limit

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