Rate Limiting for System Design

Master the core algorithms needed to protect your APIs and confidently solve high-scale traffic challenges in your next system design interview. * **Implement Token Bucket** for flexible traffic burst handling * **Compare Sliding Window** and Leaky Bucket for accuracy * **Prevent Cascading Failures** using distributed rate limiting strategies * **Solve Scalability Challenges** in high-traffic system design interviews

4 sections ยท 9 lessons

Course outline

Foundations

  1. Core Concepts
  2. Architecture Placement
  3. Foundations

Window Algorithms

  1. Fixed Window
  2. Sliding Log
  3. Sliding Counter
  4. Window Algorithms

Bucket Algorithms

  1. Token Bucket
  2. Leaky Bucket

Interview Design

  1. Distributed Limiting
  2. Comparing Tradeoffs

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