Rate Limiting Strategy | Agent Skills Atlas

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Use when designing rate limiting for an API, choosing between token bucket / sliding window / leaky bucket / fixed window, implementing it in Redis, deciding edge (Cloudflare/Upstash) vs origin enforcement, sizing per-user vs per-IP vs per-endpoint quotas, returning the right 429 response with Retry-After, or fixing the boundary-burst bug in fixed-window limiters. Triggers: 429 too many requests, INCR + EXPIRE, ZADD + ZREMRANGEBYSCORE + ZCARD, X-RateLimit-Remaining header, Cloudflare WAF rate limiting rules, Upstash @upstash/ratelimit, leaky bucket shaping vs policing, distributed rate limiter consistency. NOT for DDoS mitigation specifically (different scale), CAPTCHA / bot management, full WAF design, or per-user quota billing.

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Category: Engineering
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Listing language (estimated): English
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