System Design Visualized
Lesson 4.10

Performance, monitoring and wrap up

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Gather analytics to check the limiter is effective: is the algorithm right, and are the rules right? Rules that are too strict drop valid requests. For bursty events like flash sales, swap in an algorithm that supports bursts, such as the token bucket.

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