Design a distributed rate limiter for an API gateway — Paytm interview
Reported in Paytm interview loops. System design testing token bucket, sliding window, and Redis coordination.
Company vault
Indian fintech — payments, wallets, and high-volume transactions.
Questions
100
Reported in Paytm interview loops. System design testing token bucket, sliding window, and Redis coordination.
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