Rate Limiting

A mechanism to limit request rates to services and APIs, ensuring stability, fairness and protection against overload and abuse.

Rate limiting is an architectural pattern that restricts the rate of requests to services or APIs to prevent overload and abuse.

Maturity

Established

Cognitive loadMedium

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Rate Limiting

360°

2

2

Integrations

API gateways (e.g., Kong, Apigee)

+2

1

Protect system stability from external traffic spikes

Value stream stage: Run

4

3

4