Rate Limiting Algorithms: Token Bucket vs Sliding Window in Practice
How token bucket, leaky bucket and sliding window rate limiting algorithms work, what traffic shapes they permit, and how to implement them safely at scale.
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Token Bucket vs Sliding Window: Choosing an API Rate Limiter
Compare token bucket, sliding window, fixed window and leaky bucket rate limiting: how each works, burst behaviour, memory cost and distributed pitfalls.
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