Enhance Rate Limiting Resilience for Bursty Traffic Patterns

[ash1shkumar]

Description

Traffic spikes can expose inconsistencies in request throttling behavior, affecting user experience.

Proposed Solution

• Refine rate-limit calculations.
• Improve burst handling.
• Strengthen enforcement consistency.
• Add monitoring metrics.

Acceptance Criteria

• Predictable throttling behavior.
• Reduced false positives.
• Improved traffic stability.

Expected Labels

level3, NSoC'26

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