rate-limiter-with-go

Rate limiting strategies

This implementation supports the following rate limiting strategies:

• Token bucket
• Leaky bucket
• Fixed window (TODO)
• Sliding window (TODO)

Run this example

By default, this implementation is used a fixed-window strategy. Clients are allowed to make 10 requests every minute. Once they go over 10 requests, application start denying the requests letting them know they’re over their quota and need to wait.

go run main.go

# execute this instruction many times
curl --header "X-Forwarded-For: 127.0.0.1" localhost:8080/api/v1/hello