diff --git a/backend/public/Cargo.lock b/backend/public/Cargo.lock
index 2eee503..f29299d 100644
--- a/backend/public/Cargo.lock
+++ b/backend/public/Cargo.lock
@@ -302,6 +302,19 @@ dependencies = [
  "typenum",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "dashmap"
+version = "5.5.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "978747c1d849a7d2ee5e8adc0159961c48fb7e5db2f06af6723b80123bb53856"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "hashbrown",
+ "lock_api",
+ "once_cell",
+ "parking_lot_core",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "der"
 version = "0.7.9"
@@ -410,6 +423,31 @@ dependencies = [
  "percent-encoding",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "forwarded-header-value"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8835f84f38484cc86f110a805655697908257fb9a7af005234060891557198e9"
+dependencies = [
+ "nonempty",
+ "thiserror",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "futures"
+version = "0.3.30"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "645c6916888f6cb6350d2550b80fb63e734897a8498abe35cfb732b6487804b0"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures-channel",
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-executor",
+ "futures-io",
+ "futures-sink",
+ "futures-task",
+ "futures-util",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "futures-channel"
 version = "0.3.30"
@@ -454,6 +492,17 @@ version = "0.3.30"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "a44623e20b9681a318efdd71c299b6b222ed6f231972bfe2f224ebad6311f0c1"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "futures-macro"
+version = "0.3.30"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "87750cf4b7a4c0625b1529e4c543c2182106e4dedc60a2a6455e00d212c489ac"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "futures-sink"
 version = "0.3.30"
@@ -466,14 +515,22 @@ version = "0.3.30"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "38d84fa142264698cdce1a9f9172cf383a0c82de1bddcf3092901442c4097004"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "futures-timer"
+version = "3.0.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f288b0a4f20f9a56b5d1da57e2227c661b7b16168e2f72365f57b63326e29b24"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "futures-util"
 version = "0.3.30"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3d6401deb83407ab3da39eba7e33987a73c3df0c82b4bb5813ee871c19c41d48"
 dependencies = [
+ "futures-channel",
  "futures-core",
  "futures-io",
+ "futures-macro",
  "futures-sink",
  "futures-task",
  "memchr",
@@ -509,6 +566,26 @@ version = "0.31.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "32085ea23f3234fc7846555e85283ba4de91e21016dc0455a16286d87a292d64"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "governor"
+version = "0.6.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "68a7f542ee6b35af73b06abc0dad1c1bae89964e4e253bc4b587b91c9637867b"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "dashmap",
+ "futures",
+ "futures-timer",
+ "no-std-compat",
+ "nonzero_ext",
+ "parking_lot",
+ "portable-atomic",
+ "quanta",
+ "rand",
+ "smallvec",
+ "spinning_top",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hashbrown"
 version = "0.14.5"
@@ -831,6 +908,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "no-std-compat"
+version = "0.4.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b93853da6d84c2e3c7d730d6473e8817692dd89be387eb01b94d7f108ecb5b8c"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "nom"
 version = "7.1.3"
@@ -841,6 +924,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "minimal-lexical",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "nonempty"
+version = "0.7.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e9e591e719385e6ebaeb5ce5d3887f7d5676fceca6411d1925ccc95745f3d6f7"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "nonzero_ext"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "38bf9645c8b145698bb0b18a4637dcacbc421ea49bef2317e4fd8065a387cf21"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "nu-ansi-term"
 version = "0.46.0"
@@ -1028,6 +1123,12 @@ version = "0.3.30"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d231b230927b5e4ad203db57bbcbee2802f6bce620b1e4a9024a07d94e2907ec"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "portable-atomic"
+version = "1.8.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d30538d42559de6b034bc76fd6dd4c38961b1ee5c6c56e3808c50128fdbc22ce"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ppv-lite86"
 version = "0.2.20"
@@ -1058,10 +1159,26 @@ dependencies = [
  "sqlx",
  "tokio",
  "tower-http",
+ "tower_governor",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-subscriber",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "quanta"
+version = "0.12.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8e5167a477619228a0b284fac2674e3c388cba90631d7b7de620e6f1fcd08da5"
+dependencies = [
+ "crossbeam-utils",
+ "libc",
+ "once_cell",
+ "raw-cpuid",
+ "wasi",
+ "web-sys",
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "quote"
 version = "1.0.37"
@@ -1101,6 +1218,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "getrandom",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "raw-cpuid"
+version = "11.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "cb9ee317cfe3fbd54b36a511efc1edd42e216903c9cd575e686dd68a2ba90d8d"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "redox_syscall"
 version = "0.5.4"
@@ -1414,6 +1540,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "lock_api",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "spinning_top"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d96d2d1d716fb500937168cc09353ffdc7a012be8475ac7308e1bdf0e3923300"
+dependencies = [
+ "lock_api",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "spki"
 version = "0.7.3"
@@ -1786,6 +1921,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
  "tower-layer",
  "tower-service",
+ "tracing",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1832,6 +1968,22 @@ version = "0.3.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "8df9b6e13f2d32c91b9bd719c00d1958837bc7dec474d94952798cc8e69eeec3"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tower_governor"
+version = "0.4.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "313fa625fea5790ed56360a30ea980e41229cf482b4835801a67ef1922bf63b9"
+dependencies = [
+ "axum",
+ "forwarded-header-value",
+ "governor",
+ "http",
+ "pin-project",
+ "thiserror",
+ "tower 0.4.13",
+ "tracing",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing"
 version = "0.1.40"
@@ -2035,6 +2187,16 @@ version = "0.2.93"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c62a0a307cb4a311d3a07867860911ca130c3494e8c2719593806c08bc5d0484"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "web-sys"
+version = "0.3.70"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "26fdeaafd9bd129f65e7c031593c24d62186301e0c72c8978fa1678be7d532c0"
+dependencies = [
+ "js-sys",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "webpki-roots"
 version = "0.26.6"
diff --git a/backend/public/Cargo.toml b/backend/public/Cargo.toml
index f9ff84a..1630c65 100644
--- a/backend/public/Cargo.toml
+++ b/backend/public/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ authors = ["Wyatt J. Miller <wyatt@wyattjmiller.com"]
 [dependencies]
 axum = "0.7.6"
 tower-http = { version = "0.6.1", features = ["trace"] }
+tower_governor = "0.4.2"
 tokio = { version = "1.40.0", features = ["full"] }
 sqlx = { version = "0.8.2", features = [
   "runtime-tokio-rustls",