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# [Fun with Adaptive Rate Limiting](https://blog.openziti.io/fun-with-adaptive-rate-limiting?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Background We recently had an issue where an OpenZiti network was overwhelmed with client requests when a user change unintentionally caused the request rate to spike. The fundamental problem was that if a request took too long, the client gave up, b...

Jan 26, 2024 · 7 min read · blog.openziti.io  
Updated Jan 29, 2024  
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## Written by

[Paul Lorenz](https://hashnode.com/@plorenz)

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Software engineer working on open source zero trust networking

I'm a developer on the open source OpenZiti project. I work mostly in Go these days, but did Java for many years. Currently working on zero-trust stack build on top of mesh networking which allows for app embedding.

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