A small fix for safely restoring rate-limit data after Redis outages evolved into conditional updates, a cleaner API, and ultimately Trypema v2.
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David Oyinbo

Trypema v2.0.0, a Rust rate-limiter library, has been released. What started as a small fix for safely restoring rate-limit data after Redis outages grew into a larger refactor introducing conditional updates and a cleaner API.

Trypema (rust rate-limiter) v2.0.0 released

Redis recovery is where rate limiters can get sneaky. Conditional restores sound like the right fix—you want recovered state to help, not overwrite newer counters that arrived while Redis was coming back.