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Rate limiting strategies

Bouncers for your API.

Definition

Techniques to cap the rate of requests a client or system can make in a given time window, protecting backends from overload and abuse.

Step 1

In one or two sentences, what do you think this concept means? Wrong is fine; the small struggle is what makes the answer stick.