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Rate limiting: token bucket vs sliding window

unwritten—Outline
Note to self
Not written yet. This is the outline I am working from — it will be filled in as I go through the topic.
  • Fixed window, sliding window, token bucket, leaky bucket
  • Distributed counters in Redis and the atomicity problem
  • Per-tenant vs per-user vs per-endpoint limits
  • Responding well: 429, Retry-After, and client backoff
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