How to Use Rate Limiting in Laravel Rate limiting is a crucial security and performance feature that helps prevent abuse, brute-force attacks, and overuse of your application resources. Laravel provides a powerful and flexible way to handle rate limiting via built-in middleware and custom configurations. 🚧 Why Use Rate Limiting? Protect endpoints from spamming or brute-force login attempts Ensure fair use of server resources Improve overall API and application performance ⚙️ Using Laravel's Built-in Throttle Middleware Laravel includes a throttle middleware you can apply to routes or route groups. Route::middleware('throttle:60,1')->group(function () { Route::get('/api/data', 'ApiController@getData'); }); This allows a maximum of 60 requests per minute per IP address. 🛠️ Creating Custom Rate Limiters Since Laravel 8, you can define named rate limiters using the RateLimiter facade ...