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September 22, 2022
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Rate Limiting Architecture: Token Bucket vs Sliding Window in a Distributed System
Token bucket and sliding window algorithms have different fairness properties under burst traffic. The Redis Lua script that got us from theory to production.
Token bucket and sliding window algorithms have different fairness properties under burst traffic. The Redis Lua script that got us from theory to production.
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- rate-limiting
- distributed-systems
- redis
- architecture
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