[avg_dev]

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.

[jart]

Here's the code I use: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/net/http/to...

[sakopov]

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