Rate Limiting : Understand in 3 Minutes

<p>Two months ago I shipped UNPWNED, a passive web security scanner aimed at indie hackers and developers shipping AI-generated code (Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, Replit, v0).</p> <p>I

<p>If your API has no rate limiting, any client can send as many requests as it wants. A broken retry loop, a scraper, or a user who refreshes too fast all of it hits your server

<h1> API Rate Limiting: A Complete Guide for Developers </h1> <p>APIs are the foundation of modern applications. Whether you're building a SaaS platform, mobile application, AI

<p>Well I failed a amazon OA because of a rate limiting question, So I have built this rate limiter from first principles and haven't followed any tutorial. Through this blog, I

<h2> TL:DR: </h2> <p>Testing rate-limited APIs without breaking your workflows comes down to one core principle: never test API rate limits against live systems when a mock will