Jon Moore's Strange Loop 2017 talk argues that rate limiting is the wrong tool for protecting services from noisy clients. He proposes concurrency-based capacity management and quotas instead.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN engineers recommend it for its core insight that limiting concurrency naturally yields request-rate limits, and for its link to queueing theory.
“The basic premise is not do do req/s limiting but rather concurrency limiting which results in req/s limiting by itself.”HN comment, 2017
“The basic premise is not do do req/s limiting but rather concurrency limiting which results in req/s limiting by itself.”
Argues for concurrency limiting rather than requests-per-second limiting
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For a different view on the topic watch "Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" this video The basic premise is not do do req/s limiting but rather concurrency limiting which results in req/s limiting by itself. Concurrency limiting is rather simple and doesn't require a lot of code complexity.
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You will like the Strange Loop 2017 talk about this subject: "Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon Moore this video Concurrent capacity might not be the best metric.
