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Circuit Chuckles · Daily comic

Rate Limiting

Published Wednesday, 11 November 2026 · By Security.io

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Glitch watches requests flood a terminal while Rusty deploys a speed-limit sign and cone as literal rate limiting.

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Rusty confuses rate limiting with posting a speed-limit sign and a traffic cone while requests continue flooding in.

Transcript

Accessible reading order
  1. Panel 1 — Glitch: Requests are flooding in.
  2. Panel 2 — Rusty: Rate limiting is active.
  3. Panel 3 — Glitch: Requests do not read signs. Rusty: Then we need enforcement.
  4. Panel 4 — Glitch: They are still flooding in. Rusty: Then they are speeding.