Rate Limiting Explained Simply | Protect APIs from Crashes & Attacks | System Design | Day - 26

🧠 Protect APIs from Crashes & Attacks

Ever wondered how big systems stay stable when millions of requests hit them at once?
In this video, I break down Rate Limiting in the simplest way possible—using real-world analogies—to help you understand how modern systems protect themselves from overload, abuse, and attacks.

✅ What You’ll Learn:

- What rate limiting is and why it’s essential in system design
- How rate limiting protects against DoS & brute-force attacks
- Common real-world use cases of rate limiting
- IP-based, server-based & geography-based strategies
- Popular algorithms: Token Bucket, Leaky Bucket, Fixed Window, Sliding Window
- Client-side vs server-side enforcement
- Performance, scalability & UX trade-offs

🎯 Perfect For:

- Backend Developers
- System Design Beginners
- API Developers
- Software Engineers preparing for interviews
- Anyone learning scalable system architecture

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⌚ TimeStamps

0:00 - Intro
0:28 - What is Rate Limiting?
1:04 - Safe and fair system
2:33 - Type of rate limiting
4:27 - Rate Limiting Algorithms
5:51 - The balancing Art

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