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Building a Rate Limiter That Survives a Traffic Spike: From Token Bucket to Distributed GCRA

Master rate limiter architecture for massive traffic spikes. Learn how to implement Token Bucket, Sliding Window Counter, and distributed GCRA using Redis Lua.

Sachin SharmaCreator

Aug 1, 2026

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Building a Rate Limiter That Survives a Traffic Spike: From Token Bucket to Distributed GCRA

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Master rate limiter architecture for massive traffic spikes. Learn how to implement Token Bucket, Sliding Window Counter, and distributed GCRA using Redis Lua.

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