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Designing Rate Limiting for APIs: Algorithms, Patterns, and Implementation
A practical comparison of token bucket, leaky bucket, fixed window, and sliding window rate limiting, with copy-paste Redis and FastAPI code, nginx config, and guidance on which one to actually use.
NGINX Rift (CVE-2026-42945): The 18-Year-Old Rewrite Bug That Hands an Attacker Your Worker Process
An autonomous code-audit tool found an 18-year-old heap overflow in NGINX's rewrite module. Affects every release from 0.6.27 through 1.30.0, plus NGINX Plus and the entire F5 product line. Full RCE PoC is public. Here is the one-line config grep that tells you whether you are exposed, the patch matrix, and what to do about the long tail of products that bundle the vulnerable nginx without a vendor patch yet.
Kubernetes Service External IP Pending
Learn how to troubleshoot and resolve the issue of a Kubernetes service's external IP being stuck in the Pending state. Understand the causes and solutions for this common problem.