The explosive growth of digital services and mobile devices has created new challenges for developers trying to support users with different needs and usage patterns. High user demand, limited network data plans, and user frustration all combine to create a need for API throttling. By Vyom Srivastava.
Further in the article:
- What is API throttling?
- What is API Rate limiting?
- Similarities Between API rate limiting and API throttling
- Differences between API throttling and rate limiting
- Common mistake: Misunderstanding throttling and rate limiting
- When to implement API rate limiting vs. API throttling
APIs play a critical role in modern software development, so it is important to manage their usage and performance. In the simplest form of API throttling, the throttler would be part of the API server, and it would monitor the number of API requests per second and minute, per user, or per IP address based on user authentication. Rate limiting, on the other hand, is the practice of limiting the number of requests that can be made to an API within a specific time period. Good read!
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