RateLimitAPI

Infrastructure

rate limiting api

SHOW HN2023

5points
5comments
#2,837of 3,109 in 2023
Top 92%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

0 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 2 comments about the project.

Idea: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Landing page and simple design

    From 1 comment
    • I like the simplicity of the landing page! For me personally, the tool would be more useful if I could adjust the duration and the rate limit count without redeploying my code,…
      anze3db on HN

Objections

  • Rate limit duration and count cannot be changed without redeploying code

    From 1 comment
    • I like the simplicity of the landing page! For me personally, the tool would be more useful if I could adjust the duration and the rate limit count without redeploying my code,…
      anze3db on HN
  • Would rather run their own Redis than use a third-party service

    From 1 comment
    • I like the simplicity of the landing page! For me personally, the tool would be more useful if I could adjust the duration and the rate limit count without redeploying my code,…
      anze3db on HN
  • Pub/sub users likely already have event counting, so the service is less needed

    From 1 comment
    • That makes sense if you already have a pub/sub service running. But if you have a pub/sub service running, you probably also have a service that can count events so you won't…
      anze3db on HN

Requests

  • Configure rate limits without redeploying

    From 2 comments
    • I like the simplicity of the landing page! For me personally, the tool would be more useful if I could adjust the duration and the rate limit count without redeploying my code,…
      anze3db on HN
    • That makes sense if you already have a pub/sub service running. But if you have a pub/sub service running, you probably also have a service that can count events so you won't…
      anze3db on HN

Questions

  • Whether users will need to change limits often

    From 1 comment
    • Touche! I guess we'll see if it's an issue in practice. My intuition is people won't change durations that frequently in practice. eg. OpenAI has a limit of 40 messages per 3…
      flurly on HN

Alternatives named

  • Self-hosted Redis

    From 1 comment
    • I like the simplicity of the landing page! For me personally, the tool would be more useful if I could adjust the duration and the rate limit count without redeploying my code,…
      anze3db on HN

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