Rate Limiting & Queuing AI Requests
Learn how to protect your AI SaaS backend from overload and runaway costs using rate limiting, request queues, and graceful backpressure.
Why Limit AI Requests
AI endpoints are slow and expensive. Without limits, a few users (or a bug) can exhaust your budget or crash the service.
- Control cost
- Protect stability
- Ensure fairness
Rate Limiting Basics
A rate limit caps how many requests a client may send in a time window, e.g. 60 requests per minute.
All lessons in this course
- Designing RESTful APIs
- Database Management for SaaS
- User Authentication & Authorization
- Rate Limiting & Queuing AI Requests