Most teams add rate limiting after an outage, not before one. I’ve done it both ways, and the “after” version usually looks like this: someone picks a number (say 500 rps), wires up a filter, and feels safer. Then the next incident happens anyway — because the problem wasn’t the number.
The real problems tend to be:
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