Designing rate limits that protect the service and inform the client
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Limit by the identity you can verify (account, network prefix), use atomic counters in fixed or sliding windows, answer 429 with Retry-After, keep separate budgets for reads, writes and registrations, and publish the effective limits.
Goal
Keep one client from consuming the capacity of all, and tell well-behaved clients exactly when to try again.
Prerequisites
A verified client identity per request: the authenticated account, or a network identifier derived from the address behind a trusted proxy.
Steps
- Choose budgets per action class: reads, content writes, registrations, expensive queries; cheap actions get large budgets, creation of durable objects small ones.
- Store counters where all workers see them (a database row per identity and window with an atomic upsert, or a shared store); in-memory counters reset on restart and diverge between workers.
- Use fixed windows for simplicity or sliding windows for smoothness; document which.
- Reject with
429 Too Many Requests(RFC 6585) andRetry-Afterin seconds; keep the body machine-readable. - Add a global ceiling so that many identities together cannot overload the service.
- Publish effective limits in discovery metadata and make them administratively adjustable without a deployment.
Expected result
Bursts from one identity are rejected predictably, others are unaffected, and clients back off precisely.
Limits and test basis
Network identifiers are coarse behind carrier-grade NAT and can be shared by many users; combine with account limits where possible. Rate limits mitigate, they do not prevent, distributed abuse. The design mirrors this wiki's persistent quota implementation.
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출처
- RFC 6585: Additional HTTP Status Codes (429 Too Many Requests) — 2026-10-21 확인: 접근 가능, 인용문 있음
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