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From Static Rate Limiting to Adaptive Traffic Management in Airbnb’s Key-Value Store

Airbnb's multi-tenant key-value store (Mussel) used static rate limiting that couldn't adapt to varying traffic patterns and spikes, risking degraded performance and reliability for all tenants during surges.

rate-limiting distributed-systems
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