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Design a Rate Limiter 🔒 premium preview
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key=user:123, tokens--. Lua atomic. Headers: X-RateLimit-Remaining. Interview: 100 req/min, distributed? Redis + sliding window log for precision.
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Correct answers earn XP (once each).
1. Token bucket?
2. Where enforce?
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