Rate Limiting
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Rate limiting is like a bouncer who says 'you can come in 100 times per hour, then you wait.' Without it, one bad actor or one accidentally infinite loop can send millions of requests and crash your server. It is one of those features that takes an afternoon to add and saves you from a 3am outage six months later.
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