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api/webservers

client(s)

success

failure (too many requests)

cache (high throughput)

logging mechanism

database (nosql)

http 200

server-side rate-limiter
use ip/user-id for unique identifier
send HTTP 429 on rejection
use load balancer to scale with multiple load balancers
each rate limiter can send to specific set of servers so that we don’t need another layer of load balancers

rate limiter

load balancer

multiple rate limiters

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