Go Wiki: Rate Limiting

Practical Go Team guidance for ticker-based and token-bucket rate limiting patterns.

• Author: Go Team
• Authority: primary
• Kind: wiki
• URL: https://go.dev/wiki/RateLimiting

What it covers

• ticker-based throttling
• token bucket patterns
• basic rate-limiting tradeoffs

Why authoritative

Official Go wiki guidance for common rate-limiting designs.

Use when

• how should I rate limit in Go
• should I use a ticker or token bucket for throttling
• what is the idiomatic Go rate limiting pattern

Keywords

• rate limiting, throttling, token bucket, ticker, requests per second

Used by

• rate-limiting