Does Twitter use a 3rd party software for rate limiting their APIs? If yes, who’s the 3rd party?
21st November 2010
My answer to Does Twitter use a 3rd party software for rate limiting their APIs? If yes, who’s the 3rd party? on Quora
I wrote up a technique for doing simple rate limiting using memcached a while ago, which I later found out was somewhat similar to how the Twitter API does it.
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