hammer · Elixir Observer

hammer

A rate-limiter with plugable backends.

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ExHammer/hammer

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First Release

8

years ago

Last Release

6

months ago

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last 90 days

Last Stable Version

7.1.0

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last year

Pull Requests

Open 5

Merged 23

Latest Merged Pull Requests

Bump benchee from 1.4.0 to 1.5.0

epinault merged 2 months ago

Bump ex_doc from 0.38.3 to 0.39.1

epinault merged 2 months ago

Bump credo from 1.7.12 to 1.7.13

epinault merged 2 months ago

Bump ex_doc from 0.38.2 to 0.38.3

epinault merged 4 months ago

Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5

epinault merged 4 months ago

Issues

Open 4

Closed 4

Version 7.1.0

Published Jul 2025 •

Elixir Version Requirement ~> 1.14

Documentation for 7.1.0

This package has no dependencies

Changelog for 7.1.0

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Community

Article
Elixir/Phoenix Security: Rate Limits for Authentication with Hammer

Practical guide to adding authentication rate limits in Phoenix with Hammer, including risks and configuration.

Video
ElixirCasts #172 — Rate-limiting a Phoenix API with Hammer

Screencast implementing per-user API rate limiting using Hammer and returning 429 responses.

Article
Rate Limits Phoenix

Blog post showing how to add a Hammer-based rate limiter plug to a Phoenix API pipeline.

Article
How to make rate limiting in Phoenix 1.7? (community tips)

Elixir Forum thread discussing Hammer backends (ETS/Redis) and approaches to per-role limits.

Article
Building a Distributed Rate Limiter in Elixir with HashRing

AppSignal article that includes examples wrapping Hammer for clustered rate limiting patterns.

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