System design
Rate limiting: token bucket vs leaky bucket
Rate limiters protect servers from traffic surges, DoS attacks, and abusive scraping. How token bucket and leaky bucket work, and which one your API needs.
The engineering questions you get asked, and the bugs you actually hit. Drawn, one mechanism at a time, in the order the videos ship.
Rate limiters protect servers from traffic surges, DoS attacks, and abusive scraping. How token bucket and leaky bucket work, and which one your API needs.