Building with Redis
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This content is also available on YouTube. Check it out! The Sliding Window Counter offers a more efficient way to handle rate limiting compared to the Sliding Window Log. While the Sliding Window Log keeps an exact log of timestamps for each request, allowing precise tracking over a rolling time period, this precision comes at the cost of higher…
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This article is also available on YouTube! The Token Bucket algorithm is a flexible and efficient rate-limiting mechanism. It works by filling a bucket with tokens at a fixed rate (e.g., one token per second). Each request consumes a token, and if no tokens are available, the request is rejected. The bucket has a maximum…