The first AI endpoint I put behind a rate limiter was protected by a policy that allowed 60 requests per minute per user. It felt responsible. Two weeks later one customer generated a bill larger than
When an API slows down under load, the investigation typically leads to the same short list of culprits: unnecessary allocations, blocking calls, missing caching, oversized payloads, and uncontrolled
Rate limiting is no longer a "nice-to-have" in production APIs — it is a foundational reliability and security control that every senior .NET developer is expected to understand deeply. Whether you ar
Choosing the right rate limiting algorithm for your ASP.NET Core API is one of those decisions that looks straightforward on the surface but carries real consequences in production. Since .NET 7, ASP.
