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API Rate Limiting Best Practices

5 min readFah Swe Team242 views

Rate limiting is essential for login endpoints, contact forms, and public APIs. Without it, brute-force attacks and bot traffic can overwhelm your server.

We implement sliding window limits in Redis, return clear 429 responses, and log suspicious patterns for review.

Combined with CAPTCHA on sensitive forms and Cloudflare WAF at the edge, your application stays available under pressure.