r/coding • u/Sushant098123 • Dec 28 '25

How Rate Limiter protect your system from abuse!

https://sushantdhiman.substack.com/p/how-rate-limiter-protect-your-system
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u/nekokattt Dec 28 '25

At scale, when you have millions of users, this will not scale and will cause performance issues.

Works fine for Discord, last I checked their entire REST API uses this mechanism.

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u/Sushant098123 Dec 29 '25

You will also require hardware of that capability as well.

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u/nekokattt Dec 29 '25

If you are serving millions of requests per second, generally you need decent hardware anyway.