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REr/replication-interview·posted by tang_hao·6 hours agoAnnouncementPinned

Open-sourced a rate-limiting middleware for replication-interview with token bucket and sliding window

Some background first. Our setup is replication-interview plus three downstream services, seven figures of daily requests, peaking around nine in the evening.

Worth noting: the official docs do cover this, just in a very inconspicuous spot. I only found it reading the source comments, where the author explains the reasoning — roughly "so that it degrades into predictable behaviour in extreme cases".

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Kkite·12 minutes ago

One counter-example: below replication-interview 7.4 the semantics of that code are different, so do not copy it verbatim. We got burned in staging and rolled back once.

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Zzhu_zong·3 minutes agoedited

Thanks for sharing real numbers — far more useful than the articles that only cover concepts.

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