Design a distributed rate limiter service
Company: Atlassian
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: This question evaluates competency in distributed systems design, focusing on scalability, consistency, concurrency control, storage and sharding choices, observability, and rate-limiting concepts such as per-key limits and algorithm trade-offs.
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