Phase 22 · Build Backend Portfolio Projects
ProjectsRate Limiter Service
Part of the Backend Developer Roadmap.
Summary
A standalone rate-limiting service other applications can call — practice for implementing a real system-design interview question as working, deployed code.
How to Learn This
- 1Implement at least two algorithms (token bucket and sliding window) and let callers choose.
- 2Make it usable as a shared service across multiple client applications via Redis.
- 3Add clear response headers (remaining requests, reset time) like real APIs do.
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