Architect's Guide

Mar 26, 2026 · Backend Development

How to Prevent Duplicate Submissions and Rate‑Limit APIs with the Guardian Spring Boot Starter

This article explains how the open‑source Guardian starter provides a lightweight Spring Boot solution for anti‑repeat submission and API rate limiting, covering dependency setup, annotation and YAML configuration, key generation strategies, response handling, concurrency safety, extensible architecture, monitoring endpoints, and deployment options.