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prezi / reverse-proxy-rate-limiter

Reverse proxy written in Node.js that limits incoming requests based on their origin and the number of active concurrent requests.
Apache License 2.0
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Why not nginx? #9

Open gergelyke opened 9 years ago

gergelyke commented 9 years ago

I was wondering, what' the benefit of using this over nginx?

johannesschirrmeister commented 9 years ago

We actually wanted to implement our rate-limiting concept as an nginx plugin written in lua at first, because we already use that combination for another purpose in our infrastructure. We eventually decided against it, because it comes with a much more complicated development environment compared to node.

In addition, we haven't used node before in production and this seemed like a great opportunity to gather some experience :)