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never heard of this before. I looked it up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_bucket

I think this would be like a firewall or ingress thing that would drop packets that resulted in excess load before they make it to the application server.

It's a common rate limiting algorithm. Here's an interesting article from Stripe on how they use it in their APIs. [1]

[1] https://stripe.com/blog/rate-limiters

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