#system-design

Articles tagged with #system-design

Designing a Rate Limiter From Scratch — Token Bucket vs Sliding Window vs Fixed Window vs Leaky Bucket
A practical system design breakdown covering all 4 algorithms, per-user and per-IP limiting, and how to implement it in a distributed system
Apr 10, 202612 min read
How I'd Design a URL Shortener on AWS — and What Most Tutorials Get Wrong
The Problem With Most URL Shortener Tutorials Search "URL shortener system design" and you'll find hundreds of articles. Most of them give you the same thing: a single server, a database with a short_
Apr 3, 20268 min read109