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Marek Walkowiak

Nov 9 2021

OAuth rate-limiting

Every e-commerce platform needs some kind of central authorization system. At Allegro we use OAuth and have our own implementation that stays true to the RFC. Allegro has millions of users. There are also a lot of requests that go through OAuth services. At some point there comes a need to have better control over how much traffic we want to allow in a certain time window, while maintaining full performance of the platform. Here is where the idea of rate-limiting comes in handy.


Marek Walkowiak

Just a simple software engineer, who values everlasting concepts over transient frameworks and technologies.