I weirdly only found out about a few of these rate limiting algorithms yesterday when I was looking at rate limiting Elixir processes for a small load testing t

I weirdly only found out about a few of these rate limiting algorithms yesterday when I was looking at rate limiting Elixir processes for a small load testing tool. Merkle Trees, bloom filters, and raft/paxos are prevalent in crypto so if you read those topics you'd know them. Hyperloglog is an HN favorite. Failed an interview for a test infra engineer because I couldn't implement a trie from memory earlier in the year -.-'