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Why Rate Limiting by IP Breaks Your API

calendar_today May 12, 2026 person domain zuplo

Carrier-grade NAT, cloud egress reuse, and shared proxies put unrelated callers behind one IP address, so an IP-based rate limit punishes the wrong people. Rate-limit by API key or JWT subject with Zuplo’s rate-limit-inbound policy instead.

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