Warning: This package is in "best effort" maintenance mode. I try to respond to opened issues and keep it reasonably up-to-date with respect to the underlying Rust toolchain, but am no longer actively developing it.
A Redis module that provides rate limiting in Redis as a single command. Implements the fairly sophisticated generic cell rate algorithm (GCRA) which provides a rolling time window and doesn't depend on a background drip process.
The primitives exposed by Redis are perfect for doing work around rate limiting, but because it's not built in, it's very common for companies and organizations to implement their own rate limiting logic on top of Redis using a mixture of basic commands and Lua scripts (I've seen this at both Heroku and Stripe for example). This can often result in naive implementations that take a few tries to get right. The directive of redis-cell is to provide a language-agnostic rate limiter that's easily pluggable into many cloud architectures.
Informal benchmarks show that redis-cell is pretty fast, taking a
little under twice as long to run as a basic Redis SET (very roughly 0.1 ms
per command as seen from a Redis client).
Binaries for redis-cell are available for Mac and Linux. Open an issue if there's interest in having binaries for architectures or operating systems that are not currently supported.
Download and extract the library, then move it somewhere that Redis can access it (note that the extension will be .dylib instead of .so for Mac releases):
$ tar -zxf redis-cell-*.tar.gz
$ cp libredis_cell.so /path/to/modules/
Or, clone and build the project from source. You'll need to install
Rust to do so (this may be as easy as a brew install rust if
you're on Mac).
$ git clone https://github.com/brandur/redis-cell.git
$ cd redis-cell
$ cargo build --release
$ cp target/release/libredis_cell.dylib /path/to/modules/
Note that Rust 1.13.0+ is required.
Run Redis pointing to the newly built module:
redis-server --loadmodule /path/to/modules/libredis_cell.so
Alternatively add the following to a redis.conf file:
loadmodule /path/to/modules/libredis_cell.so
From Redis (try running redis-cli) use the new CL.THROTTLE command loaded by
the module. It's used like this:
CL.THROTTLE <key> <max_burst> <count per period> <period> [<quantity>]
Where key is an identifier to rate limit against. Examples might be:
- A user account's unique identifier.
- The origin IP address of an incoming request.
- A static string (e.g.
global) to limit actions across the entire system.
For example:
CL.THROTTLE user123 15 30 60 1
▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲
| | | | └───── apply 1 token (default if omitted)
| | └──┴─────── 30 tokens / 60 seconds
| └───────────── 15 max_burst
└─────────────────── key "user123"
This means that a single token (the 1 in the last parameter) should be
applied against the rate limit of the key user123. 30 tokens on the key are
allowed over a 60 second period with a maximum initial burst of 15 tokens. Rate
limiting parameters are provided with every invocation so that limits can
easily be reconfigured on the fly.
The command will respond with an array of integers:
127.0.0.1:6379> CL.THROTTLE user123 15 30 60
1) (integer) 0
2) (integer) 16
3) (integer) 15
4) (integer) -1
5) (integer) 2
The meaning of each array item is:
- Whether the action was limited:
0indicates the action is allowed.1indicates that the action was limited/blocked.
- The total limit of the key (
max_burst+ 1). This is equivalent to the commonX-RateLimit-LimitHTTP header. - The remaining limit of the key. Equivalent to
X-RateLimit-Remaining. - The number of seconds until the user should retry, and always
-1if the action was allowed. Equivalent toRetry-After. - The number of seconds until the limit will reset to its maximum capacity.
Equivalent to
X-RateLimit-Reset.
Implement different types of rate limiting by using different key names:
CL.THROTTLE user123-read-rate 15 30 60
CL.THROTTLE user123-write-rate 5 10 60
redis-cell is written in Rust and uses the language's FFI module to interact with Redis' own module system. Rust makes a very good fit here because it doesn't need a GC and is bootstrapped with only a tiny runtime.
The author of this library is of the opinion that writing modules in Rust instead of C will convey similar performance characteristics, but result in an implementation that's more likely to be devoid of the bugs and memory pitfalls commonly found in many C programs.
This is free software under the terms of MIT the license (see the file
LICENSE for details).
Run the test suite:
cargo test
# specific test
cargo test it_rates_limits
# with debug output on stdout
cargo test it_rates_limits -- --nocapture
CI has checks for both Rustfmt and Clippy (Rust's linter). These can be installed and run locally using Rustup's component framework:
rustup component add rustfmt
cargo fmt --all
rustup component add clippy
cargo clippy -- -D warnings
Releases are performed automatically from a script in CI which activates when a
new tag of the format v1.2.3 is released. The script builds binaries for all
target systems and uploads them to GitHub's releases page.
To perform a release:
- Add a changelog entry in
CHANGELOG.mdusing the existing format. - Bump the version number in
Cargo.toml. - Commit these changes with a message like
Bump to version 1.2.3. - Tag the release with
git tag v1.2.3(make sure to include a leadingv). ggpush --tags- Edit the new release's title and body in GitHub (a human touch
is still expected for the final product). Use the contents for the new
version from
CHANGELOG.mdas the release's body, which allows Markdown content.
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