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Jun 12, 2016 · Backend Development

Mastering Rate Limiting: Token Bucket, Leaky Bucket, and Real‑World Implementations

This article explains why caching, degradation, and rate limiting are essential for high‑concurrency systems, details token‑bucket and leaky‑bucket algorithms, shows application‑level, distributed, and edge‑level throttling techniques, and provides practical Java, Guava, Redis‑Lua, and Nginx‑Lua code examples.

GuavaNginxRedis

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Mastering Rate Limiting: Token Bucket, Leaky Bucket, and Real‑World Implementations

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Oct 23, 2015 · Backend Development

Implementing Token‑Bucket Rate Limiting with Guava RateLimiter in Java

The article explains how to protect high‑traffic systems during events like Double 11 by using token‑bucket rate limiting, describes the algorithm, compares Guava's SmoothBursty and SmoothWarmingUp implementations, and provides a simple Java TrafficShaper example with code.

Guavabackendrate limiting

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Implementing Token‑Bucket Rate Limiting with Guava RateLimiter in Java