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Rate Limiting Explained: Token Bucket, Leaky Bucket, and When Each Wins (2026)
Rate limiting explained in 2026 — fixed window, sliding window, token bucket, and leaky bucket, which algorithm to default to, and why LLM traffic is limited by tokens rather than requests.
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