Tollbooth: HTTP rate limiter middleware in Go
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Tollbooth: HTTP rate limiter middleware in Go
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Re: Tollbooth: HTTP rate limiter middleware in Go
#2This is neat. What's the best way to do rate limiting in from of Apache for wordpress/drupal sites these days? everytime I go looking for something new I'm dissapointed.
Re: Tollbooth: HTTP rate limiter middleware in Go
#3This is neat. What's the best way to do rate limiting in from of Apache for wordpress/drupal sites these days? everytime I go looking for something new I'm dissapointed.
You could use the OP's project and point everything that makes it through the limiter at Apache with a reverse proxy http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/httputil/#ReverseProxy
Re: Tollbooth: HTTP rate limiter middleware in Go
#4Related: this thread mentions a bunch of things a rate limit package has to consider: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/golang-nuts/rate$...
(I thought rate limiters were very simple timers)
Re: Tollbooth: HTTP rate limiter middleware in Go
#5It's built around github.com/juju/ratelimit
Re: Tollbooth: HTTP rate limiter middleware in Go
#6Serious question: why would you not use HAProxy, nginx or similar software which arguably are more battle tested in this domain?
Re: Tollbooth: HTTP rate limiter middleware in Go
#7Serious question: why would you not use HAProxy, nginx or similar software which arguably are more battle tested in this domain?
You can do that when the HTTP call is simple, when you need some logic in the rate limitation ( auth, login ect... ) it's impossible.
Re: Tollbooth: HTTP rate limiter middleware in Go
#8Serious question: why would you not use HAProxy, nginx or similar software which arguably are more battle tested in this domain?
For general rate limiting, yes HAProxy or Nginx make more sense.
Having different rate limits for different endpoints becomes unmanageable in HAProxy/Nginx; and having different rate limits say across different plans or users is all but impossible.
Re: Tollbooth: HTTP rate limiter middleware in Go
#9This is neat. What's the best way to do rate limiting in from of Apache for wordpress/drupal sites these days? everytime I go looking for something new I'm dissapointed.
Use mod_security as most Apache installs already have it enabled and it achieves the same thing.
Re: Tollbooth: HTTP rate limiter middleware in Go
#10Serious question: why would you not use HAProxy, nginx or similar software which arguably are more battle tested in this domain?
Four startups ago, I did a simpler one in Nginx using embedded Lua and Redis. It can definitely be done, but writing it in Go is easier, and funner :D