HLD Interview Notes: Day 11/30
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HLD Interview Notes: Day 11/30 Topic: Rate Limiting: Token Bucket, Leaky Bucket and Sliding Window Imagine your API suddenly receives 100,000 requests in one minute. Your servers are overloaded. Legitimate users are experiencing failures. How do you control incoming traffic without bringing down the system? 1. What Is Rate Limiting? Rate limiting controls how many requests a client can make within a specific time period. Example: An API allows: 100 requests per minute per user. Requests beyond the limit receive HTTP 429 (Too Many Requests). 2. Fixed Window Counter Divide time into fi
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