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Interning at incident.io: Rate Limiting, Resiliently

Our rate limiter depends on Valkey. If Valkey goes down we fail open and stop limiting which isn't good enough for our platform. As an intern, I built per-pod in-memory top-k buffers so we keep rate limiting even with the backing store gone.

Anthony Oparaocha

September 2, 2026

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