Leaky bucket strategy

[Zirafnik]

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I am crossposting this from express-rate-limit, since it is a Store improvement suggestion.

Original post: #express-rate-limit/express-rate-limit#359 (comment)

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[PaulAtST]

This would be a great feature.

[mt-ks]

@nfriedly what do u think?

[nfriedly]

I left some comments on the original post. Basically I think it's fine if somebody wants to do it in their own store, but I don't really think it's worth the trouble in the official ones for a couple of reasons:

• Leaky bucket prevents some of the optimizations that we have.

• It was impossible to represent with the older header standards, although it might actually be possible with the latest draft.

If we did do it officially, I think I would want to do a redesign of the whole project so that the strategy and store were independent of eachother, and every strategy could work with every store. But that seems like a ton of work, and probably not worth the effort.