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Designing a Distributed Rate Limiter with Redis and Lua Scripts

A deep dive into sub-millisecond sliding window counter algorithms, token buckets, and coordinating distributed rate limiting across multi-region API gateways.

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Alex Rivera•Sep 28, 2026

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Designing a Distributed Rate Limiter with Redis and Lua Scripts