gin-ratelimiter

Rate Limiting API in Golang for distributed sytems.

Given

You are given an external API endpoint which allows to check that given user-id does have the limit for the request on the given application or not.

Example HTTP calls

curl -X GET http://localhost:8888/rate
Request Headers:
1. user-id:<userid>
2. application-id:<application-id>

Task

Design a rate limiting application or API.

Requirements

• The API must support multiple users and multiple application support.
• If the HTTP status 200 means user is allowed to make call on respective application, http status should 429 when user exceeds the request for the given application.