rate package limiting window

[true plinth]

never used it, but I was curious about this module 🙂

if you add fmt.Println(limiter.Tokens()) above the current Println, you'll see what's happening

you start with a budget of 60 that refills at 1 every minute

so you get the initial 60 true, then false for a minute while it refills to 1, then the solo true and it starts to refill again

from fiddling I think you want to use time.Second rather than minute

doesn't look like it - the limit is defined as "events per second" in the docs, so you have to multiply out from that

yep, Tokens shows you how many events are left currently

then you want to set the limit to time.Second rather than Minute

yeah I think rate.NewLimiter(rate.Every(time.Second), 60) should do that? you're refilling 1 per second, with a maximum of 60 (also starting out at 60)

are you working on fixed time windows then? this is effectively a sliding window

[true plinth]

might be worth looking for 3rd party module then, looks like there's a bunch that simplify rate limiting