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What? These are different things.

This article is about the server deciding which requests to reject. Exponential backoff is a strategy clients use deciding when to retry after their request is rejected. (Plus, the article is about malicious clients; they're not going to follow your preferred backoff strategy.)

More concretely, how would exponential backoff ensure that you don't allow more than 10 requests/second per user?



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