System Design Interview - Rate Limiting (local and distributed)

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4:00 why a rate limiter needs to be designed as a distributed system and not just for a single host 11:00 algorithm for deciding wether to accept or reject req, token bucket algorithm keeps a bucket of tokens for each unique client, and has a re-fill rate. When client makes a req we check if it has tokens remaining, if not reject 14:50 classes and interfaces oop 17:00 rate limiter across different hosts in a cluster 18:30 how token buckets communicate each just says how much they’ve used so far and the others can sum and make decision

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[@MrMukulj]

@MIkhail, pretty awesome work you have done. Thank you!. I wanted to propose a slight change to refill method see if you accept it. 1. private void refill ( int tokens) 2. replace line #3 in refill method with -> currentBucketSize = Math.min(currentBucketSize + tokenToAdd, maxBucketSize + tokens); Also in the allowRequest method first line will change from refill() to refill(tokens);

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Good one this, thanks. One problem I have with this design. The distributed cache like redis is the one which should store Map. Every host will talk to this. Every host should not store this!

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i was thinking why not just use a redis cluster to resolve the issue, instead implement gossip protocol to sync the rate across all machine, i mean this is good to understand things deep in side , but in practical world, does someone really not using distributed cache to handle rate limit issue? i doubt. but again i love the way that we drill down that detail to understand the foundation

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Regarding the bucket filling example ,14:32-14:37, at T2 do we refill the bucket by 5 or 2? Refill rate is 10/s and at T2 it has passed half of second so the refill rate should be 5,correct me if it’s wrong.Also forgot the main point - Thanks for sharing this wealth of knowledge

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No, it's only 200 ms is passed that's why only 2 tokens were added

[@EricStratton79]

The way he coded the refill() method, even if no tokens were added, it sets lastRefillTime to "now". We did not add any tokens at t1 because the bucket was already full but it still set lastRefillTime to "now". Meaning at t2 the amount of time elapsed is calculated from t1, not t0 (so 200ms).

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Load balancers have custom algos that allows to implement rate limiting. One known algo is Least Response Time routing.

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That's a great video that covers a lot of details. few question: 1. what is the good choice of the interval for the limiter? 2. how to evaluate the cost of synchronization in the cluster? P.S. I'd probably add to trade-off discussion that inter datacenter communication is too costly and probably shouldn't be applied here.

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Hi quantumlexa. Great questions. 1. What I have seen in practice are the numbers between 1 and several seconds. Higher number leads to less messages to be passed between nodes in the cluster, which leads to less accurate solution, but more scalable. Lower number, on contrary, increases accuracy but decreases scalability. The actual number depends on the service requirements and should include many factors, such as: - Cluster size - Is autoscaling configured? How much time is needed to increase capacity? - Is there any other protection from the overload? (e.g. load shedding) - etc. We will need to run a load test to define a proper value for the interval. I would start with 1 second and testing should tell if this value has to be adjusted. 2. Performance testing to the rescue. We should run a load test with profiling enabled for the service. Good point about inter datacenter communication.

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