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Scaling your API with rate limiters

The following are examples of the four types rate limiters discussed in the accompanying blog post. In the examples below I've used pseudocode-like Ruby, so if you're unfamiliar with Ruby you should be able to easily translate this approach to other languages. Complete examples in Ruby are also provided later in this gist.

In most cases you'll want all these examples to be classes, but I've used simple functions here to keep the code samples brief.

Request rate limiter

This uses a basic token bucket algorithm and relies on the fact that Redis scripts execute atomically. No other operations can run between fetching the count and writing the new count.

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

How to Install / Bootcamp Windows 10 on a mid-2011 iMac using USB

Apple has released support for bootcamping Windows 10, but only on 2012 Macs and later. Despite not being supported. it is possible to install Windows 10 on earlier iMacs and it seems to run quite well.

IMPORTANT: Unplug all external and physical hard drives (where possible) that you won't be installing to to avoid accidentally erasing them. Also make note of which drives and partitions remain (e.g. System and Storage hard drives), and be super careful to not erase the wrong one.

RECOVERY: If you nuke your machine, restore your time machine backup. Instructions here.

	package main

	import (
	"context"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"os/signal"
	"syscall"
	"time"

	/** Async version of Array.prototype.reduce()
	* await reduce(['/foo', '/bar', '/baz'], async (acc, v) => {
	* acc[v] = await (await fetch(v)).json();
	* return acc;
	* }, {});
	*/
	export async function reduce(arr, fn, val, pure) {
	for (let i=0; i<arr.length; i++) {
	let v = await fn(val, arr[i], i, arr);
	if (pure!==false) val = v;

	{
	"keys": ["tab"],
	"command": "expand_abbreviation_by_tab",

	// put comma-separated syntax selectors for which
	// you want to expandEmmet abbreviations into "operand" key
	// instead of SCOPE_SELECTOR.
	// Examples: source.js, text.html - source
	"context": [
	{

	* {
	font-size: 12pt;
	font-family: monospace;
	font-weight: normal;
	font-style: normal;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: black;
	cursor: default;
	}

	'use strict';

	module.exports = function CustomError(message, extra) {
	Error.captureStackTrace(this, this.constructor);
	this.name = this.constructor.name;
	this.message = message;
	this.extra = extra;
	};

	require('util').inherits(module.exports, Error);

	# Hello, and welcome to makefile basics.
	#
	# You will learn why `make` is so great, and why, despite its "weird" syntax,
	# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
	# programs.
	#
	# Once you're done here, go to
	# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
	# to learn SOOOO much more.