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Spring Boot Rate Limiting Example based on Redis

• By Ercan
• 15/10/2025
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Rate limiting is one of the most fundamental building blocks in backend engineering — it protects your system from excessive requests, ensures fair usage, and prevents overload. While there are countless ways to implement it, achieving both accuracy and efficiency in a distributed environment is a more delicate challenge. In this post, I’ll share my hands-on experience building a Redis-based rate limiting system in Spring Boot, comparing five popular algorithms, and highlighting how Lua scripting can significantly improve performance and reliability. Project Overview The project, a..