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The Bouncer at the DoorSystem Design

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• 429Too Many Requests
• backoffwait longer each retry (+ jitter)
• distributed limitshared redis count, usually approximate
• fixed / sliding windowcount per clock-bucket / over a moving window
• leaky bucketqueue drains at a constant rate
• per-keytracked per user/IP/API-key
• rate limitcap on requests per key per window
• Retry-Afterwhen to try again
• throttlingslow/reject once over the cap
• token bucketrefill r, hold B, spend 1 per request