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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.

@tbrianjones
tbrianjones / free_email_provider_domains.txt
Last active June 12, 2024 12:28
A list of free email provider domains. Some of these are probably not around anymore. I've combined a dozen lists from around the web. Current "major providers" should all be in here as of the date this is created.
1033edge.com
11mail.com
123.com
123box.net
123india.com
123mail.cl
123qwe.co.uk
126.com
150ml.com
15meg4free.com
@mardix
mardix / php-cs-fixer-pre-commit.php
Created September 4, 2012 17:06
A pre-commit hook to make PHP code PSR-2 compliant, check for syntax error
#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
/**
* .git/hooks/pre-commit
*
* This pre-commit hooks will check for PHP error (lint), and make sure the code
* is PSR compliant.
*
* Dependecy: PHP-CS-Fixer (https://github.com/fabpot/PHP-CS-Fixer)
*