Multiple ChoiceIntermediate 45s
Distributed rate limiting accuracy
A rate limiter uses a local in-memory counter per instance with limit 100 rps and there are 10 instances. What is the effective global limit?
Options
- 1Exactly 100 rps, because the limit is global and one shared counter applies
- 2Less than 100 rps, because instances contend and lose throughput to overhead
- 3Up to ~1000 rps, since each instance enforces its own budget independently
- 4Unbounded, because a local counter has no shared state and imposes no limit once scaled out
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