capstone48 weeks~4h mentor timeLive defense

Distributed Rate Limiter

Build a horizontally-scalable rate limiter with multiple algorithms and a control plane.

By Demo Academy

goredisgrpc

The brief

Build a horizontally-scalable rate limiter with multiple algorithms and a control plane. The brief is deliberately incomplete — you make and justify the tradeoffs.

Deliberately ambiguous — you make and justify the tradeoffs. Your work is checked against a held-out evaluation you can't see in advance.

Milestones & mentor checkpoints

1Algorithm designweek 1mentor review
2Distributed coreweek 3mentor review
3Control plane & hardeningweek 6mentor review

How you're graded

Correctness
40% weight
Scalability
30% weight
Code quality
30% weight