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"
}