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Rate Limiter — Inbound + Outbound

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Either a standalone SD round or an additional layer baked into the take-home prompt. Design a rate limiter that gates both inbound API requests (e.g. 100 req/s) and outbound calls to a downstream cons...

SWE

Infra Eng

rate-limiting

concurrency

throttling

queueing

medium

Frequency

Low

Last asked

2026-01-28

Stage

onsite-system-design · take-home

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