Interview question
Implement rate limiting for a public API
Asked in UnitedHealth Group Nigeria Backend Engineer interviews
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Implement rate limiting for a public API
Medium57% Candidate ReportsCODINGUnitedHealth Group NigeriaBackend Engineer
Question
Implement rate limiting for a public API
High-Level Approach
Redis INCR with TTL or token bucket; return Retry-After; monitor reject rate.