https://nalar.dev/tags/rate-limiting/ Recent content in Rate Limiting on Nalar Hugo en-us Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/token-bucket-rate-limiter-go/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/token-bucket-rate-limiter-go/ <p>Rate limiting protects a service from traffic spikes, accidental client loops, and workloads that consume more resources than the system can safely handle. A useful limiter should do more than enforce a fixed request count: it should allow small bursts while keeping the long-term request rate bounded.</p> <p>The token bucket algorithm provides exactly that behavior. This guide implements a small, concurrency-safe token bucket using only Go&rsquo;s standard library and then shows how to use it in an HTTP service.</p>