Avoiding denied of service with rate limits

There is a lot of guides to help us to define a good Restful services. Mainly they talk about the following points:

• Restful URLs and actions
• Usability
• Security
• Versioning
• Hateoas
• Documentation
• Cache
• Pagination
• Filtering
• Response envelopes
• Rate limit
• ...... and so on

In this case we are going to focus on rate limit aspect. In the next screencast, it is presented an approach to implement a rate limit by IP client, based on RateLimiter class provided by guava library.

See you in the next post!