capstone4–8 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