Easy and Robust Rate Limiting in Elixir (opens in new tab)

From My.Thoughts v1: Intro In this blog post, we’ll be talking about what rate limiters are, when they are applicable, and how we can write 2 styles of rate limiters leveraging GenServer, Erlang’s queue data structure, and Task.Supervisor. Finally, we’ll write a sample application that leverages a rate limiter and we’ll make our application modular in the sense that we can swap our rate limiters via configuration to achieve the operational characteristics that we desire.