nginx-ratelimit

A simple hello-world JSON API service that incorporates rate limiting via Nginx. It allows 50 requests per second and returns a 429 error when the limit is exceeded.

See the blog post here.

Installation

git clone git@github.com:rednafi/nginx-ratelimit

Take it for a spin

• Start the service:

  docker compose up -d

• Test the rate limiting by sending many requests:

  seq 200 | xargs -n 1 -P 100 bash -c 'curl -s localhost/greetings|jq'

  This returns:

  {
      "message": "Hello World"
  }
  {
      "message": "Hello World"
  }
  ...
  {
      "status": 429,
      "message": "Too Many Requests"
  }
  {
      "status": 429,
      "message": "Too Many Requests"
  }
  {
      "message": "Hello World"
  }
  {
      "status": 429,
      "message": "Too Many Requests"
  }