| What do you mean by Rate Limiting in API? As we knows APIs provides functionalities and some certain resources to the clients who are using API. We will take some example to understand APIs service like you suppose to book a table in restaurant from websites through the API to make reservations. Now comes Rate Limiting it is a process to restrict the user number of request for some specific resource for a certain period of time. Here service provider will offers API to clients which will have a limitation on request made by consumer within a specified window of time. Here each unique IP/User Address/Client key will have a limit the number of requests to API endpoint. | | |