Throttling is a pattern where you restrict the number of connections that a service can handle, returning an HTTP error code when this threshold has been exceeded. The full source code for this example can be found in the file throttling/limit_handler.go. The middleware pattern for Go is incredibly useful here: what we are going to do is to wrap the handler we would like to call, but before we call the handler itself, we are going to check to see if the server can honor the request. In this example, for simplicity, we are going only to limit the number of concurrent requests that the handler can serve, and we can do this with a simple buffered channel.
Our LimitHandler is quite a simple object:
9 type LimitHandler struct { 10 ...
