Rate Limiting Patterns Patterns for protecting APIs and services through rate limiting, throttling, and quota management. When to Use This Skill - Implementing API rate limiting - Choosing rate limiting algorithms - Designing distributed rate limiting - Setting up quota management - Protecting against abuse Why Rate Limiting Rate Limiting Algorithms Token Bucket Concept: Tokens added at fixed rate, requests consume tokens Characteristics: - Allows controlled bursts - Simple to implement - Memory efficient - Most common algorithm Implementation sketch: Leaky Bucket Concept: Requests queue and…