Nginx Rate Limiting in Practice: Defending Against CC Attacks and Traffic Spikes
This comprehensive guide covers Nginx rate limiting fundamentals, leaky bucket algorithm, configuration directives (limit_req_zone, limit_req, limit_conn_zone), practical scenarios (IP/URI-based limiting, whitelists, blacklists, CC attack defense), testing tools (wrk, ab, vegeta), monitoring with Prometheus, troubleshooting cases, and production rollout/rollback strategies.
