Implementing rate limiting
Rate limiting is an essential technique used to control and manage the flow of traffic to web applications, ensuring optimal performance, resource utilization, and protection against abuse or overload. In this recipe, we’ll explore how to implement rate limiting in FastAPI applications to safeguard against potential abuse, mitigate security risks, and optimize application responsiveness. By the end of this recipe, you’ll have a solid understanding of how to leverage rate limiting to enhance the security, reliability, and scalability of your FastAPI applications, ensuring optimal performance under varying traffic conditions and usage patterns.
Getting ready
To follow the recipe, you need a running FastAPI application with some endpoints to use for rate limiting. To implement rate limiting, we will use the slowapi package; if you haven’t installed the packages with the requirements.txt file provided in the GitHub repository, you can...
