Taming the Flow: Throttling in Golang with Semaphore Magic
IntroductionIn today’s digital world, APIs serve as the core of modern applications, allowing seamless data exchange and interaction. However, even the most robust and scalable API servers can succumb to the humongous number of incoming requests. Picture this scenario: your finely crafted API server, designed to handle thousands of requests per second, suddenly experiences an unprecedented spike in traffic. Within moments, your server starts to struggle under the weight of the overwhelming load, its response times slowing to a crawl, and in the worst-case scenario, a complete outage occurs.