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alexchamberlain on Oct 17, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Never trust a system that seems to be working

That is the Token Bucket [1] algorithm. Variations can easily be coded to be distributed (use Redis), or account for multiple receivers etc.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_bucket

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