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API Rate Limit Fairness Design
Make limits fair across tenants
Designing fair rate limits means setting per-tenant/user tiers, separating burst and sustained limits, protecting critical endpoints, and monitoring for abuse to avoid noisy neighbors while enabling paying customers.
- rate limits
- fairness
- tiers
- noisy neighbors
- api
Segment
Define limits by plan/tenant and by critical endpoints.
Shape Traffic
Separate burst vs sustained limits; use token buckets.
Monitor
Watch for abuse/noisy neighbors; adjust and document limits.
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