Thanks Omar :) yes, you're right, when I discovered GCRA this thing confused me too. GCRA allows you to bunch requests and when you reach the limit (5 requests in this case) you can make a new request after 12 seconds and not after a minute, because in opposite to time-bucketed "it actually enforces a rate rather than a limit to the number of requests a user can do within a period". GCRA has the same behaviour as Leaky Bucket, you can fill the bucket immediately and make a new request only when the background process, that runs every N seconds, releases a slot. I hope I've clarified your doubts!
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Thanks Omar :) yes, you're right, when I discovered GCRA this thing confused me too. GCRA allows you to bunch requests and when you reach the limit (5 requests in this case) you can make a new request after 12 seconds and not after a minute, because in opposite to time-bucketed "it actually enforces a rate rather than a limit to the number of requests a user can do within a period". GCRA has the same behaviour as Leaky Bucket, you can fill the bucket immediately and make a new request only when the background process, that runs every N seconds, releases a slot. I hope I've clarified your doubts!