Rate Limiting Algorithms, Ranked
Token bucket vs leaky bucket vs sliding window — when each wins.
Amit Kumar Singh1 min read
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Token bucket vs leaky bucket vs sliding window — when each wins.
Queues, load shedding, and what happens when producers outrun consumers.
Reliably publishing events alongside your database writes.
Token bucket vs sliding window, where to store the counters, and how to keep a rate limiter correct when it's spread across many servers.