In the previous article, we discussed the fundamentals of rate limiting and explored several popular rate limiting algorithms. We’ll continue by exploring how to build some real-world rate limiters. There are many factors to consider when developing a rate limiter for the real world. For example, in many use cases, a rate limiter is in the most critical path of an application. It is important in those situations to think through all the failure scenarios and consider the performance implications of placing it in such a critical path.

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There are many factors to consider when developing a rate limiter for the real world. The requirements can vary based on the nature of our service and the use cases we’re trying to support. For a real-time service like a bidding platform where latency could be highly critical, we would need a rateLimiter that doesn’t add significant latency to the overall request time.

Rate Limiter For The Real World