{
  "id": "api-gateway/2026-10-22-v1-2-0",
  "project": "api-gateway",
  "projectName": "API Gateway",
  "version": "v1.2.0",
  "date": "2026-10-22",
  "time": "18:30:00",
  "timezone": "UTC",
  "title": "Distributed Rate Limiting & JWT Cache Layer",
  "type": "feature",
  "tags": [
    "performance",
    "security",
    "redis"
  ],
  "author": {
    "name": "LoneCodeGuy",
    "handle": "@lonecodeguy"
  },
  "summary": "Added Redis-backed distributed rate limiting and in-memory JWT validation cache.",
  "breaking": false,
  "body": "### Highlights\n\nIn this release, we revamped the traffic control layer to handle up to 50k req/sec with minimal latency penalty.\n\n- **Distributed Rate Limiting**: Added sliding window counter backed by Cloudflare KV and Redis.\n- **JWT Cache Layer**: Validated JWT tokens are cached for 60 seconds, reducing auth overhead by 82%.\n- **Health check endpoint**: New `/healthz` and `/metrics` Prometheus endpoints.\n\n```bash\n# Test the new rate limit header\ncurl -I https://api.yourdomain.com/v1/healthz\n# X-RateLimit-Limit: 1000\n# X-RateLimit-Remaining: 999\n```"
}