Our rate limiting example demonstrates how to control resource utilization and maintain quality of service. Java provides various mechanisms for implementing rate limiting, including threads 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 example demonstrates how to implement basic and bursty rate limiting in Java. We use BlockingQueue to simulate incoming requests, ScheduledExecutorService for timing, and Semaphore for bursty rate limiting. The overall structure and logic remain similar to the original example, adapted to Java’s concurrency utilities.