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Developer guides, architecture deep-dives, and tutorials.

API Security

What is API Rate Limiting? A Complete Guide

Learn how rate limiting protects your APIs from abuse, scraping, and DDos attacks. A primer for modern backend engineers.

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Architecture

Token Bucket vs Sliding Window Rate Limiting

Deep dive into the two most popular rate limiting algorithms, their mathematical models, and when to choose which for your application.

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Engineering

Sub-Millisecond Rate Limiting with Redis Lua Scripts

How we engineered LimitYourAPI to achieve atomic consistency and sub-15ms latency across distributed systems using Redis and Lua.

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