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The Spike Arrest policy protects against traffic spikes. It throttles the number of requests processed by an API proxy and sent to a backend, protecting against performance lags and downtime

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APIGEE Spike Arrest Best practise / Pragmatic usage for Front End Integration

Was dealing with the APIGEE gateway development recently and found out that the usage of Spike Arrest is very limiting to certain integrations (Backend only). As per recommended by APIGEE, we should avoid the usage of concurrent rate limit here and…
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Spike Arrest policy in Apigee

Spike arrests aren't implemented as counts. They are currently implemented as rate limiting based on the time the last matching traffic was successfully processed. I saw the above message in many places for SpikeArrest Policy. With out…
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