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Redis Sliding Window Rate Limiting Fixes API Burst Vulnerability

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Fixed window rate limiting allows attackers to send 120 requests in 2 seconds by timing resets. A Redis sorted set sliding window algorithm looks back 60 seconds continuously, blocking bursts. The Laravel middleware removes old timestamps and checks counts atomically in sub-millisecond time.

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Practical guide, but production rate limiting also needs distributed coordination and per-user keys, not just per-IP.
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