Concurrent Ratelimit policy

[#1]

i just want to know if there is a way we can make a request wait when implementing concurrent rate limit policy?

[anilsr · Accepted solution]

NO, It's an anti-pattern of REST APIs.

APIs are in general stateless. You shouldn't be having any state by making them queue up / do retry.

Offload this functionality to client / backend system.

Hope it helps.

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[#3]

thanks @Anil Sagar I know this is an anti pattern but i want to know if there is a way, what i mean is if have allowed 5 connections for concurrent rate limit policy and all 5 are active, now when the 6 request comes, it ll not be served by backend, so until a connection gets dropped, can we make the 6 request? or what you suggest in this situation?

[#4]

6 request *wait

[anilsr]

@Ilyas shah , Concurrent rate limit policy is used to protect backend. It's not a quota policy. Increase the rate limit.

If counter is over the limit, Apigee drops the requests.

[#6]

thanks @Anil Sagar I agree totally.