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Case Study: A Free Model's C++ Token Bucket Passed 18 Tests. NTP Broke It in One Second.

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A token bucket is simple. The clock underneath it is not. I needed a rate limiter for a telemetry gateway that forwards events to an upstream API capped at 100 requests per second. I asked a free model endpoint to implement the bucket and a unit-test suite. All 18 tests passed. Then a 60-second loa…

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  1. 2026-08-23 18:25 · DEV Community — AI
    Case Study: A Free Model's C++ Token Bucket Passed 18 Tests. NTP Broke It in One Second.

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