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How to build a Rate Limiter using Redis

Ajeet Raina
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Ajeet Raina, Former Developer Growth Manager at Redis

Rate limiting is a mechanism that many developers may have to deal with at some point in their life. It’s useful for a variety of purposes like sharing access to limited resources or limiting the number of requests made to an API endpoint and responding with a 429 status code.

In this tutorial, we will see how to implement Rate Limiting using various programming languages: