Today I was trying out the latest version of nginx. I was trying to build it from scratch on my MacOS machine, and it seemed pretty straight forward to build and use :D Let’s see what I did Note: I assume that you have development tools like make installed. I installed them by doing xcode-select --install For detailed docs on configuration for compilation, check https://nginx.org/en/docs/configure.html The latest version of nginx as of this writing is 1.

In this post, I wanna jot down my thoughts on rate limiting while I ponder about it and learn more about it and understand the why, what, how So, what’s rate limiting? Before going there to answer that question, let’s see a scenario that can happen in the realy world Let’s say you build a service. It’s a long running service that responds to network requests, for example HTTP requests to an HTTP API served by your service

Recently I was checking out Kong’s Open Source Kong API Gateway and Kong’s documentation on services and routes when I stumbled upon Mockbin, an interesting service by Kong, and it’s open source! mockbin source code is here - https://github.com/Kong/mockbin . According to their website, in short what Mockbin does is - Mockbin allows you to generate custom endpoints to test, mock, and track HTTP requests & responses between libraries, sockets and APIs.