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tower_governor

v0.8.0 Growing

A rate-limiting middleware for Tower backed by the governor crate that allows configurable key based and global limits

MIT OR Apache-2.0 Edition 2021
Web programming::HTTP server #tower#rate-limit#tonic#governor#axum

Quick Verdict

  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Massive adoption (1.1K crates depend on it)
  • โœ“Permissive license (MIT OR Apache-2.0)

Security

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Downloads
3.3M
Dependents
1.1K
Releases
18
Size
28KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

489.6K downloads in the last 30 days (16.3K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Widely adopted

1.1K crates depend on tower_governor. Strong ecosystem adoption means battle-tested code and long-term stability.

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Single maintainer risk

tower_governor has only 1 owner despite 1.1K dependents. This is a bus-factor concern โ€” consider the implications for long-term support.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 3+ years old, tower_governor hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Compact crate

At 27KB, tower_governor is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include taxy, leo-lang, miden-node-utils, ic-bn-lib, snarkos-node-rest. When high-quality crates choose tower_governor, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 9/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 11/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 13/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 8/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 10/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
14K/day avg-33%
05K10K15K20K25K4/265/146/16/197/77/24

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.8.0
50%
v0.4.3
20%
v0.7.0
14%
v0.6.0
9%
v0.5.0
7%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["axum", "tonic"]

axum*tonic*tracing

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Maintainers

Dependencies
16
direct dependencies
Dependents
1.1K
crates depend on tower_governor

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