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CodingCapacity and traffic

Rate limiting

Medium3 min read

Questions it teaches

API rate limiterEasy25 min Sending orders to a print partnerEasy25 min Multi-channel notification platformMedium40 min Multi-factor authenticationMedium35 min Live event chat at scaleMedium45 min Distributed rate limiterHard45 min Multi-tenant job schedulingHard45 min Credential-stuffing protectionHard45 min

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Capacity and traffic Observability Incident response Dependencies and deploys

Builds on: Observability

Cron failures (silent drops)3 min A/b variant regression4 min

Leads to: Incident response

A restore that stalls4 min CDN time-to-live (TTL)3 min

Related: Dependencies and deploys

Configuration errors3 min Environment misconfiguration3 min

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