Rate Limiting — Protect Your Node.js API
Implement rate limiting for API protection. Token bucket, sliding window, and Redis-based strategies.
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Implement rate limiting for API protection. Token bucket, sliding window, and Redis-based strategies.
Implement per-user token budgets, tiered model access, request queuing, cost attribution, real-time dashboards, and anomaly detection to prevent AI bill shock.
Design API gateways for rate limiting, JWT auth, request aggregation, and versioning. Learn gateway vs service mesh and Kong vs cloud vendors.
Implement token-based rate limiting with per-user budgets, burst allowances, and cost anomaly detection to prevent runaway spending and ensure fair resource allocation.
Master Redis patterns: cache-aside vs write-through caching, distributed locks with Lua, sliding window rate limiters, pub/sub, sorted sets for leaderboards, Redis Streams, and memory management.