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hermanbanken / Dockerfile
Last active April 15, 2025 21:49
Compiling NGINX module as dynamic module for use in docker
FROM nginx:alpine AS builder
# nginx:alpine contains NGINX_VERSION environment variable, like so:
# ENV NGINX_VERSION 1.15.0
# Our NCHAN version
ENV NCHAN_VERSION 1.1.15
# Download sources
RUN wget "http://nginx.org/download/nginx-${NGINX_VERSION}.tar.gz" -O nginx.tar.gz && \

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.

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vmassuchetto / purge.sh
Last active August 2, 2023 15:07 — forked from adrienbrault/purge.sh
Script to clean a Vagrant box before packaging it. Updated to work with Debian and some additional directories. It's also less general and does not remove any system packages at all.
#!/bin/sh
# Credits to:
# - http://vstone.eu/reducing-vagrant-box-size/
# - https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/343
# - https://gist.github.com/adrienbrault/3775253
# Unmount project
umount /vagrant