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Token bucket rate limiter

You rate-limit an API with a token bucket: capacity 10 tokens, refilled at 1 token per second. A client has been idle for a minute and then sends 15 requests at once. What happens?

A.About 10 requests are allowed immediately and the rest are rejected until tokens refillB.All 15 are allowed because the client was idle for 60 secondsC.Only 1 request is allowed per second, so 14 are rejectedD.All 15 are rejected because the burst is larger than the capacity

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