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Sep 21, 2026 · Backend Development

Distributed Rate Limiting with Redis + Lua: Surviving API Floods in Spring Boot

After an external system hammered a Spring Boot search endpoint causing database connection exhaustion, the author builds a distributed fixed-window rate limiter using Redis and Lua for atomicity, wraps it with an annotation-driven AOP aspect supporting user, IP, API key, and global dimensions, returns proper HTTP 429 with Retry-After, discusses fixed-window limitations versus token bucket and sliding window, and covers fail-open/fail-closed strategies for Redis outages plus monitoring metrics.

AOPFail-OpenFixed Window

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Distributed Rate Limiting with Redis + Lua: Surviving API Floods in Spring Boot

Java Tech Workshop

Apr 16, 2026 · Backend Development

Implementing API Rate Limiting in Spring Boot with AOP

This tutorial walks through why API rate limiting is a critical first line of defense for backend services, compares fixed‑window and sliding‑window strategies, and shows how to create a custom @RateLimit annotation, utility classes, an AOP aspect, Redis or local storage, and unified exception handling, providing complete code and test scenarios for Spring Boot 2.7.x.

AOPFixed WindowJava

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Implementing API Rate Limiting in Spring Boot with AOP

Architect Practice

Jul 19, 2025 · Backend Development

Fixed-Window Rate Limiting: Java and Redis Implementation Guide

The article explains the fixed‑window rate‑limiting algorithm, details a thread‑safe Java implementation, shows how to realize distributed limiting with Redis Lua scripts, compares advantages and drawbacks, provides performance benchmarks, and offers practical usage scenarios and production recommendations.

Fixed WindowJavaPerformance

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Fixed-Window Rate Limiting: Java and Redis Implementation Guide