the3seus/rate-limits
Rate Limits and Quotas Handbook
A practical guide to rate limiting, quotas, fairness, Retry-After, distributed counters, and graceful overload handling.
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KNOWLEDGE CARD / README
Portable policy knowledge for local retrieval.
A limit is a product contract and an overload control, not just a counter.
Choose the identity, window, response, and recovery story together.
Protect shared capacity while keeping legitimate clients diagnosable.
Intended use
Grounding API and platform teams while designing limits, diagnosing throttling, or rolling out protection safely.
Out of scope
This pack does not choose provider-specific limits, implement a gateway, or promise protection against every denial-of-service pattern.
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NAMESPACE SUMMARY