Building a Redis-Backed Rate Limiter: 5 Algorithms, One Config File

Zhenyu Wen

A hands-on walkthrough of implementing Token Bucket, Leaking Bucket, Fixed Window, Sliding Window Log, and Sliding Window Counter rate limiters in Python — with FastAPI, Redis, and a deep dive into why Lua scripts beat pure Python for atomic read-modify-write.

RedisPythonFastAPISystem DesignRate Limiting
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