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#Rate Limiting

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High Level Design

Rate Limiting: System Architecture

Why rate limiting matters, the Timer Wheel and Hierarchical Timer Wheel approach, and a full distributed rate-limiting architecture with request sharding.

Aug 10, 2026
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High Level Design

Design a Rate Limiter

A comprehensive study guide to designing a production-grade rate limiter. Covers placement strategies, five core algorithms with trade-offs, high-level and detailed design, and distributed system challenges like race conditions and synchronization.

Aug 9, 2026
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