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Rate Limiting with Spring Cloud Gateway and Redis

In this story, we’ll explore how to implement distributed rate limiting using Spring Cloud Gateway and Redis for rate limiting storage.

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· Prerequisites
· Overview
∘ What Is Rate Limiting?
∘ Why is rate limiting necessary for applications and systems?
∘ Why Use Redis for Rate Limiting?
∘ Rate Limiting Algorithms
∘ Algorithm Matrix
· Let’s code
∘ Setting up a Redis Instance
∘ How Rate Limiting Works with Redis
∘ Spring Cloud Gateway
∘ Configuring Redis
∘ Enabling Rate Limiting in Spring Cloud Gateway
∘ Creating a Key Resolver
∘ Testing
· Conclusion
· References

Prerequisites

This is the list of all the prerequisites:

• Spring Boot 4
• Maven 3.6.3 or later
• Java 21 or later
• Docker / Docker-compose…