APIs are the “digital glue” that integrates and connects infrastructure, services, devices, and users. With the proliferation of APIs in almost every organization, it‘s essential to have a mechanism in place to manage and govern them. That’s why we introduced Akamai API Gateway , which makes it easier for you to add governance to your APIs. \r\n A critical aspect of API governance is limiting the number of API requests that consumers can make in a certain time frame. There are two primary methods that are used to throttle API requests: rate limiting and quota management. Even though these methods serve very different needs, they are quite similar, and it can be confusing which one to use in a given situation. In this blog post, we highlight the differences between rate limiting and quota management and discuss how you can leverage Akamai solutions to throttle API requests using one or both methods. \r\n First, let’s define these methods.…