I had a recent outage on a Nginx/Rails application server. It turned out we were being bombarded by requests to a particular URL that takes a few seconds to load. It appears that a user was continually refreshing that page…
I have been trying to do rate limiting in some api endpoints that I am hitting asynchronously, requests return 200 ok as expected before rate limiting, but when the limit is reached instead of returning a 429 error my api…
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How can I change the key name stored in Redis by Flask-limiter? https://flask-limiter.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
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I am interested in to get the number of followers of a user using the twitter API in my Android application. I am reading with great interest the official twitter API documentation, however there is something that is not clear…
I have a rest api in express js. I'm using a express-rate-limiter to limit requests like so. const limiter = rateLimit({ windowMs: 60 * 60 * 1000, // 60 minutes max: 1000, // limit each IP to 1000 requests per…
I am trying to use Redis Rate limiting patter as specified in https://redis.io/commands/incr under "Pattern: Rate limiter 1". But how can I scale this in case I want to do rate limiting across multiple servers. Like I have service deployed…
How to ratelimit API endpoint request in Fastapi application ? I need to ratelimit API call 5 request per second per user and exceeding that limit blocks that particular user for 60 seconds. In main.py def get_application() -> FastAPI: application…
I'm not able to see rate limit applied in istio 1.7 by applying the following scripts. --- apiVersion: v1 kind: Namespace metadata: name: sock-shop labels: istio-injection: enabled apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3 kind: EnvoyFilter metadata: name: filter-ratelimit namespace: istio-system spec: workloadSelector: labels: istio:…