Rate-limiting is the concept of blocking users, third-party applications, and bots to prevent abuse in your application. In this security model, you put a cap on the maximum times a client can execute a specific task in your application within a given time frame. In a production environment, you'll implement rate-limiting in login forms, API endpoints, money transfer scripts, and more. In most cases, you'll be doing this to prevent brute force attacks, DoS and DDoS attacks, Web scraping, and dup......