ratelimit_meter 1.0.0

A leaky-bucket-as-a-meter rate-limiting implementation in Rust
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Rate-Limiting with leaky buckets in Rust

This crate implements two rate-limiting algorithms in Rust:

Installation

Add the crate ratelimit_meter to your Cargo.toml file; the crates.io page can give you the exact thing to paste.

API Docs

Find them on docs.rs for the latest version!

Design and implementation

Unlike some other token bucket algorithms, the GCRA one assumes that all units of work are of the same "weight", and so allows some optimizations which result in much more concise and fast code (it does not even use multiplication or division in the "hot" path for a single-cell decision).

All rate-limiting algorithm implementations in this crate are thread-safe and lock-free. Here are some benchmarks for repeated decisions (run on my macbook pro, this will differ on your hardware, etc etc):

$ cargo bench
   Compiling ratelimit_meter v0.4.1 (file:///Users/asf/Hacks/ratelimit_meter)
    Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 1.71 secs
     Running target/release/deps/ratelimit_meter-680be7c7547f40f9

running 0 tests

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out

     Running target/release/deps/multi_threaded-b206ea78b9fc87cc

running 2 tests
test bench_gcra_20threads         ... bench:         185 ns/iter (+/- 71)
test bench_leaky_bucket_20threads ... bench:         667 ns/iter (+/- 16,193)

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 2 measured; 0 filtered out

     Running target/release/deps/single_threaded-18617cd4f9e09b0d

running 8 tests
test bench_allower                 ... bench:          26 ns/iter (+/- 4)
test bench_gcra                    ... bench:         131 ns/iter (+/- 33)
test bench_gcra_bulk               ... bench:         143 ns/iter (+/- 24)
test bench_leaky_bucket            ... bench:         156 ns/iter (+/- 27)
test bench_leaky_bucket_bulk       ... bench:         152 ns/iter (+/- 24)
test bench_threadsafe_allower      ... bench:          50 ns/iter (+/- 8)
test bench_threadsafe_gcra         ... bench:         133 ns/iter (+/- 21)
test bench_threadsafe_leaky_bucket ... bench:         154 ns/iter (+/- 47)

test result: ok. 0 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 8 measured; 0 filtered out

Contributions welcome!

I am actively hoping that this project gives people joy in using rate-limiting techniques. You can use these techniques for so many things (from throttling API requests to ensuring you don't spam people with emails about the same thing)!

So if you have any thoughts about the API design, the internals, or you want to implement other rate-limiting algotrithms, I would be thrilled to have your input. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details!