Day 5: BackendChallenges.com - Building Rate Limiting for Scalable APIs

Why Rate Limiting Matters? APIs power the web, but without rate limiting, a single user (or bot) can overload your system. Think about how login attempts, API calls, and DDOS attacks could take down your app. Let’s see if you can design a rate-limiting system like the pros!

Mar 19, 2025 - 21:16
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Day 5: BackendChallenges.com - Building Rate Limiting for Scalable APIs

Why Rate Limiting Matters?

APIs power the web, but without rate limiting, a single user (or bot) can overload your system. Think about how login attempts, API calls, and DDOS attacks could take down your app.

Let’s see if you can design a rate-limiting system like the pros!