Summary
Ever wonder how some companies implement rate limiting based on the plan that you've signed up for? In this episode, we'll use Docker Hub as a case study and implement this feature within our Rails application. We'll do this by creating a custom Rack Middleware to track and throttle the requests.rails middleware request 22:00
Chapters
- Introduction (0:00)
- Generate User Migration (2:57)
- Setting up the Rate Period (3:32)
- Using Redis (4:53)
- Redis Rate Limiter Instance (5:44)
- Creating the Middleware (6:35)
- Scoping the. Rate LImiting Routes (10:03)
- Fetching the user in the Middleware (10:53)
- Checking if Rate LImit exceeded (12:02)
- Tracking the current rate (14:26)
- Quick Recap (15:45)
- Enabling the Rate Limiter Middleware (16:24)
- Debugging the Rate LImiter (17:09)
- Demo (17:51)
- Checking the Rails console (18:43)
- Final thoughts (20:15)
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