Chapter 11 — Rate Limiter (Distributed)
Chapter of Distributed Systems Fundamentals, part of System Design.
Purpose
Token bucket, leaky bucket, sliding window, Redis-backed global limiter.
[stub: distributed-rate-limiter]— fill this in. Greppable doc-debt marker.
Metadata
| Dimension | Detail |
|---|---|
| Author | Amit Singh |
| Scope | MAANG interview preparation — not production documentation |
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Low-Level Design for MAANG Interviews
A book-shaped table of contents for LLD interview prep: OOP fundamentals through SOLID, design principles, UML, design patterns, dependency management, reliability, concurrency, domain modeling, API design, testing, refactoring, classic interview problems, advanced architecture, and performance — cross-linking Object-Oriented Programming and Patterns instead of duplicating them.
System Design
Principal/Staff-level system design reference collection for MAANG interview preparation — observability pipelines, distributed systems, reliability engineering, and beyond.
Related notes
Chapter 8 — Distributed Message Queue (Kafka-like)
Partitioning, consumer groups, at-least-once vs. exactly-once.
Chapter 10 — Stream Processing System (Flink-like)
Watermarks, windowing, stateful operators, exactly-once.
Chapter 12 — Consensus & Leader Election
Raft/Paxos, split-brain prevention, fencing tokens.
Chapter 9 — Distributed Key-Value Store (DynamoDB-like)
Consistent hashing, replication, read/write quorum.