June 24, 2026
Sagar Panwar
Why I should care about a Rate Limiter?
Sagar Panwaryour system need a rate limiter
– To prevent the DDoS attacks,
– reduce costs,
– error handling
– it prevents DDoS attachs – distributed denial-of-service attempts.
– limits unnecessary strain on computing resources, saving infrastructure spend.
– it avoid overloading on our workload – ensures our happy users don’t accidentally or maliciously hog resources and ruin the experience for everyone else.
– handling errors when user throttle, the system returns a standard HTTP 429 (Too many requests) status code.
