Generally how do people rate limit endpoints? Do you use a library or use your own code?

I guess limiting in app might be well suited when the rational is only about “functional” limiting (I mean e.g. because of a pricing tier).. Otherwise, for performance or security reasons (like preventing DDoS or usage abuse) I wonder if it’s not an infrastructure concern outside of the “applicatio…

Sure, you can do this with nginx, Caddy and Traefik and likely others (maybe fail2ban as well?) but I think that’s multi-layered security: your load balancer is more about making sure your traffic is not malicious i.e. directly bombarding you with 1_000 req/sec which should result in an almost immed…

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dimitarvp April 19, 2024, 7:46pm 2

Libraries are IMO good enough f.ex. Hammer.Plug.