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# [I Tried Designing a Distributed Rate Limiter. Here’s Every Place It Broke.](https://curiousnilay.hashnode.dev/i-tried-designing-a-distributed-rate-limiter-here-s-every-place-it-broke?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Learn how I designed a distributed rate limiter using Redis, Lua scripts, fixed windows, and sliding windows, and where the design broke in production

Aug 15 · 8 min read · curiousnilay.hashnode.dev  
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## Written by

[Nilay Shahane](https://hashnode.com/@nilayshahane)

@nilayshahane · Mumbai, India

  
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## Responses 1

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[Tushita Prashant Patil](https://hashnode.com/@tush-bug)

[Aug 15](https://hashnode.com/posts/i-tried-designing-a-distributed-rate-limiter-here-s-every-place-it-broke/6a80a3f5cb55cc5b9debe75c/comment/6a80ad4190b660b244fa8163)

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!