Set Up Rate Limiting with Leaky Bucket Algorithm in Nginx

Cyrus Kao14 Jan 2022

Nginx came with a rate limit module called ngx_http_limit_req_module, which is quite handy for throttling harmful requests like DoS attack. And the module uses the leaky bucket algorithm to handle the connections. It could allow a certain amount of burst requests in a short period of time to suit the use cases.

Build an IP Based Rate Limiting Module in Node.js with Typescript

Cyrus Kao13 Jan 2022

I recently wrote a very simple IP address based rate limit module called rt-limit to throttle requests for this blog. Although rate limiting is more commonly done on reverse proxies like Nginx and Apache, being able to manage traffic on your own back-end server is always more flexible.