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rate limitingComplementsapi gateway
Source: Pattern·Target: Pattern

Summary

API gateways are the standard enforcement point for rate limiting; rate limiting rules configured on the gateway apply uniformly to all callers without code changes in downstream services.

Evidence

  • ·rate_limiting implementation_notes: prefer the gateway's built-in rate limiting (Kong, Envoy, AWS API Gateway, NGINX) when a gateway is in the architecture; lists api_gateway in related_patterns (patterns/rate_limiting.yaml)
  • ·api_gateway enforces rate limits (e.g. 1,000 req/min per API key from a Redis counter) uniformly across endpoints (patterns/api_gateway.yaml)

Evidence grounding

Grounded, 2 supporting items

The API gateway is the canonical enforcement point for rate-limiting rules.