Rate limiting used to be hard… now it’s literally one line.
app.UseRateLimiter(new()
{
GlobalLimiter = PartitionedRateLimiter.CreateChained(
PartitionedRateLimiter.CreateFixedWindow(10, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5))
)
});
🔒 Why You Need It
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🛡 Stops brute-force
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📉 Protects API throughput
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⚙ Cloud-native resilience
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🌍 Zero-config distributed support (Redis optional)
🧠 Bonus
Pair with Minimal APIs for super-light API services.