Rate Limiting Algorithms — Roadmap Step & Resources
Token bucket, leaky bucket and sliding window rate limiting strategies
- Level: advanced
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: System Design
Before this step
Mini projects
- Design a rate limiter that allows 100 requests/minute per user across multiple servers
Interview questions
- Token bucket vs sliding window log — how do they differ?
Study resources
- Rate Limiting Fundamentals (Article) — ByteByteGo's well-regarded newsletter deep-dive into token bucket, leaky bucket and sliding window algorithms.
- How to Design a Rate Limiter (Video) — A practical system design walkthrough of designing a distributed rate limiter.
Part of
- Distributed Systems Reliability — section
- System Design roadmap — the full learning path