In Introduction to rate limiting with Redis [Part 1], I described some motivations for rate limiting, as well as provided some Python and Lua code for offering basic and intermediate rate limiting functionality. If you haven’t already read it, you should, because I’m going to discuss several points from the article. In this post, I will talk about and address some problems with the previous method
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