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Build a Rate Limiter

Build production-grade rate limiters: fixed window, sliding window, token bucket, leaky bucket. Then make them distributed (via Redis) and tiered (per-IP, per-user, per-plan). Used by every API gateway, web server, and microservice.

intermediate8 lessons4 chapters8 graded exercisesPython
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What you’ll have built

Chapter by chapter. Every step is a graded exercise.

  • Why Rate Limit?
  • Algorithms
  • Distributed
  • Production
Starts in Python — solve in the language you choose in the editor, same tests either way.

Curriculum

4 chapters, 8 lessons. Each lesson is a short read, one graded exercise, and a quiz.

  1. 1Why Rate Limit?Read · exercise · quiz
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