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What was your overall approach and reasoning behind your solution? How would you improve or optimize your solution if given more time? How did you handle potential errors in your solution? Are there alternative approaches you considered, and why did you decide against them? How does your solution reflect best practices in maintainability, readability, and performance?
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What was your overall approach and reasoning behind your solution? How would you improve or optimize your solution if given more time? How did you handle potential errors in your solution? Are there alternative approaches you considered, and why did you decide against them? How does your solution reflect best practices in maintainability, readability, and performance?

Limits the number of requests a single API consumer/client can make to an API within a time-frame. Rejects excess requests (http status code 429 Too many requests). Eg. 200 requests per API consumer/min. Considerations: A. Assume single API endpoint B. Core idea/algorithm that would work on a single machine (single/multi - threaded) C. How would you scale the design for a distributed environment under heavy load Note: Even load balancers or API gateways are distributed, not single instances.
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Jan 14, 2021

Limits the number of requests a single API consumer/client can make to an API within a time-frame. Rejects excess requests (http status code 429 Too many requests). Eg. 200 requests per API consumer/min. Considerations: A. Assume single API endpoint B. Core idea/algorithm that would work on a single machine (single/multi - threaded) C. How would you scale the design for a distributed environment under heavy load Note: Even load balancers or API gateways are distributed, not single instances.

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