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Rate limiting for a public API and combatting DDOS attacks.

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is the first algorithm a fixed window?

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Custom locking for each approach?

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In sliding window with counters, how to find the nearest timestamp compared to c...

Khanh Nguyen

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In the Sliding Window With Count approach, why do we need to store the counts fo...

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What exactly is stored in the rate limiter databases? Why would this permanent s...

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In the diagram in section 7, why does the rate limiter sit between the webserver...

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Can you elaborate on how this was arrived at?>if we assume a rate limit of 10 re...

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Sliding Window algorithm would not have the concurrent request issue?Lock would ...

Junaid Effendi

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The rate limiter protects the API servers from the client making too many reques...

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The material does not cover Token Bucket algorithm.

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In section 9: - Let’s suppose we need a rate limiting of 500 requests per hour ....

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Mar 21, 2022

Curious why there's a functional requirement that "the rate limit should be cons...

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In the section 8 diagram which illustrates when the rate limiter will throttle r...

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Feb 24, 2022

Hi,Thanks for the courses, they are really great!I've just one question about fi...

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Hi Team,When we say we have to use Consistent Hashing for data sharding, Is it l...

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