Traffic

Shaping and defending the flow of requests: rate limiting, load shedding, back-pressure, and the algorithms that decide what gets through.

Explainers

• Rate Limiting: Four Algorithms, Honestly Compared — Token bucket, leaky bucket, fixed window, sliding window — one bursty arrival pattern replayed through all four at once, every verdict computed from the real algorithm. Where each one lets a burst through, and what it costs to remember the past.