Distributed Rate Limiter (Shield)

An ultra-low latency, scalable API protection system designed to intercept DDos attacks, brute-force attempts, and abuse before they hit the business layer.

• 14µs Latency (L1 Caffeine Short-Circuit)
• Distributed Token Bucket & Sliding Window Log
• Race-Condition Free (Embedded Redis Lua)
• Fail-Open Resilient Architecture