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Build a high-throughput rate-limiting service for distributed applications.

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  • Create a distributed mechanism for rate limiting service requests.
  • Build a high-throughput rate-limiting service for distributed applications.
  • Develop a rate-limiting service for APIs in a distributed environment.
  • Design a distributed service for rate limiting API requests.
  • Create a system for rate limiting in distributed services.
  • Design a distributed rate limiter.

Interview question asked to Site Reliability Engineers, Engineering Managers, Software Engineers and other roles interviewing at Novartis, Nubank, Fitbit and others: Build a high-throughput rate-limiting service for distributed applications..