Mastering Microservice Rate Limiting: Strategies, Algorithms, and TSF Implementation
This article explains why rate limiting is essential for high‑traffic microservices, outlines the key design considerations, compares major algorithms such as fixed‑window, sliding‑window, leaky‑bucket and token‑bucket, and details how Tencent Service Framework (TSF), Polaris, and TSF‑Consul implement distributed rate limiting with practical configuration examples and post‑limit handling strategies.
