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sinzone on March 30, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scaling your API with rate limiters

Another way to add a fast, distributed rate-limiting on top of your APIs is by using an API Gateway [1] like the open-source Kong [2]. This pattern is becoming a standard since it saves time from re-implementing and duplicating the same rate limiting logic in each backend microservice.

[1] http://microservices.io/patterns/apigateway.html

[2] https://getkong.org/plugins/rate-limiting/

LeonidBugaev on March 30, 2017 [–]

Yeah, worth mentioning https://tyk.io too.

Also, do not forget about Quotas which usually comes along with Rate limits. Modern API gateways can handle so many stuff for you and help with API scaling.

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