Rate Limiter
Category: System Design
Design Prompt
Design a system to restrict the maximum request rate to R requests per unit time for a server that processes a stream of objects.
Consider a client application that calls a server to process a stream of objects using the following code pattern:
for obj in stream:
process(obj)
It's observed that this pattern occasionally overloads the server. The requirement is to implement a mechanism to limit the server's request rate to a maximum of R requests per unit time.
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Core dilemma
Balancing the need for strict rate enforcement across potentially many clients/requests against the performance overhead and complexity of the rate limiting mechanism itself, especially at scale.
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Rate Limiter
Category: System Design
Design Prompt
Design a system to restrict the maximum request rate to R requests per unit time for a server that processes a stream of objects.
Consider a client application that calls a server to process a stream of objects using the following code pattern:
for obj in stream:
process(obj)
It's observed that this pattern occasionally overloads the server. The requirement is to implement a mechanism to limit the server's request rate to a maximum of R requests per unit time.