[erlang-questions] Terminology for Rate Limiting

[pablo platt]

Maybe Leaky bucket is relevant?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_bucket

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Brezal Campio <brezal.campio@REDACTED>
wrote:

> For a some function which is the following:
>   - begin with request count at 0
>   - check current request count
>   - if current current is less than allowed requests
>     - spin up a new process
>     - way for some given time and reset count to 0
>
> This is a naive approach to rate limiting, but is there common terminology
> for something like this?
>
> I am interested in less naive approaches to rate limiting requests as well
> if anyone is willing to point in the right direction.
>
> Ciao!
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