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I Tried Designing a Distributed Rate Limiter. Here’s Every Place It Broke.
Somewhere out there is a client with a bug — a while (true) loop with a missing break condition, hammering /api/order/create as fast as the network allows. while (true) { await fetch('/api/order/cre
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Tushita Prashant Patil
Questionable code, but good commits
Great read! The jump from a simple hashmap to sliding window and still having a bottleneck - crazy read! (i think I should go back to my github go through the crimes I might've committed💀) Great share Nilay!