Add basic rate limit implementation #2665
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Partially addresses #1902
This PR adds basic rate limiting via DRF throttling. This is a very permissive version of rate limiting, imposing a rate limit only for anonymous users. This limit is also purposefully set above any number I could obtain through local usage of the GUI. The point of this first step of implementation is not to be a full solution, but to protect against the most extreme of use cases, with no impact on existing legitimate users, anonymous or otherwise.
This is very similar in implementation to a previous attempt we had made to introduce rate limiting, although that was sort of made in response to a crisis. The current circumstances and implementation are slightly different, in the following ways: