Hacker News with Generative AI: Rate Limiting

Backblaze Rate Limiting Policy for Consistent Performance (backblaze.com)
Highways have lanes for a reason. The lanes help ensure that large volumes of traffic can reach their destinations quickly and safely. And they support order and predictability in systems where some folks want (or need) to go NASCAR fast and others like myself a little less so.
Exponential Rate Limiting (dotat.at)
Exponential rate limiting uses an exponentially-weighted moving average to measure the client’s rate. It is motivated by a shift of perspective:
Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting (smudge.ai)