Rate limiting is an important mechanism for controlling resource utilization and maintaining quality of service. Kotlin can implement rate limiting using coroutines, channels, and timers.
Running our program we see the first batch of requests handled once every ~200 milliseconds as desired.
For the second batch of requests we serve the first 3 immediately because of the burstable rate limiting, then serve the remaining 2 with ~200ms delays each.
This Kotlin implementation uses coroutines and channels to achieve similar functionality to the original example. The flow is used to create a timer-like behavior, and channels are used to manage the flow of requests and implement the bursty limiter. The overall structure and logic remain similar, with adaptations to fit Kotlin’s concurrency model.