System design: rate limiter (token bucket)

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Task

📝 **Question:** Pick the rate-limiting algorithm that best fits the requirement: 'Allow up to 100 requests/sec average, but tolerate short spikes of 200/sec.'

📋 Pick the right answer.

💡 **Hint:** Re-read the theory above if unsure.

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🏆 Interview Capstone: mock onsite — algorithm + behavioral

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Two pointers: pair sum

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Two pointers: palindrome check

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Prerequisites — what you should know before this track

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Prerequisites — what you should know before this track

🎯 Quiz

Question

📝 **Question:** Pick the rate-limiting algorithm that best fits the requirement: 'Allow up to 100 requests/sec average, but tolerate short spikes of 200/sec.'

📋 Pick the right answer.

💡 **Hint:** Re-read the theory above if unsure.

Keep going

💬 Discussion