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System Design: Design A Rate Limiter

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Struggling with overwhelming traffic on your APIs? Discover the art of Rate Limiting system design! This comprehensive guide explores both High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD), delving into the core components that make a robust rate limiter tick. Unleash the power of rate limiting to ensure application stability, prevent abuse, and guarantee a smooth user experience. Learn how to build a scalable system that can handle even the most demanding traffic surges. Dive in and empower your APIs to handle requests like a champ!

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System Design: Back of Envelope Estimations

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“Back-of-the-envelope calculations are the estimates you create using a combination of thought experiments and common performance numbers to get a good feel for which designs will meet the requirements” – Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow So, what are the requirements to

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System Design Basics: Part 7

System Design / 3 minutes of reading

Multi-Data Center Setup: User requests are geo-routed depending upon the closest data center to their geo location. For example there are 2 data centers US-Scus and US-WEST then requests will be distributed as x% in US-SCUS and remaining (100-x%) in US-West. This process of geo-routing is done by geoDNS service which allows domain names to

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System Design Basics: Part 6

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If you want to scale your web server horizontally then you should move the state out of web server. If your application stores some state in it then you need to make sure all the request belonging to that state are served by that particular server. For this you would need to implement service to

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System Design Basics: Part 5

System Design / 2 minutes of reading

Content Delivery Network Content delivery network is a network of servers which are geographically dispersed and are used to deliver static content to the user. Some examples of static content include: Images, videos, CSS, etc. How does CDN works? Whenever a user visits website then CDN server which is closest to the user is going

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