TSTanveer Singh Rajpurohitinmastering-api-rate-limiting.hashnode.dev·Aug 29, 2025 · 8 min readMastering API Rate Limiting: Token Bucket, Leaky Bucket, Fixed Window and Sliding Window AlgorithmsWhat is Rate Limiting? Rate limiting is a defense mechanism that regulates how often users are allowed to engage with a system in a specified period of time. It is much like creating boundaries around the consumption of resources - just like a speed ...00