Why standard rate limiters fail for LLM & SSE streams in FastAPI
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If you are building an AI chat assistant, real-time dashboard, or financial ticker in Python using FastAPI, chances are you are using Server-Sent Events ( StreamingResponse ) or WebSockets. And if you care about uptime and cloud costs, you probably installed a rate-limiting middleware like slowapi…
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- 2026-10-19 14:49 · DEV Community — AI
Why standard rate limiters fail for LLM & SSE streams in FastAPI